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Within the discipline of ancient history, diverse types of sources, such as coins, inscriptions, portraits and texts, are often combined to create a coherent image of a particular ruler. A good example of how such a process works is the way in which reconstructions by modern scholars of the emperor Nero tend to look for a clearly defined ‘Neronian image’, by bringing together various types of primary evidence without paying sufficient attention to these sources’ medial contexts. This article argues that such a reconstruction does not do justice to the complex and multi-layered image of the last Julio-Claudian. By focusing on one particular aspect of Neronian imagery, the propagation of this emperor’s ancestry, we will argue that different types of sources, stemming from varying contexts and addressing different groups, cannot unproblematically be combined. Through an investigation of the ancestral messages spread by imperial and provincial coins, epigraphical evidence and portraiture, it becomes clear that systematic analysis of ancient media,their various contexts and inconsistencies is needed before combining them. Such an analysis reveals patterns within the different sources and shows that, in creating imperial images, rulers were constrained by both medial and local traditions. Modern studies of ancient images should therefore take these medial and geographical variety into account in order to do justice to the the multi-faceted phenomenon of imperial representation.
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The standardization process of Asian civic silver coinage that took place during the Augustan Age finds its origins in the attitude that the Roman administration adopted towards civic issues right from the institution of the Provincia Asia in the 120s BC. Through our study of Asian autonomous silver issues, we will demonstrate that Romans were much more involved in the silver coinages of the Asian cities than any previous power dominating the area, as is suggested by the Roman names present on these issues and the evident decrease in the number of cities issuing them after the Roman province of Asia was instituted. Another element hinting at Roman intervention is the fact that the circulation of autonomous silver issues was limited to Caria and Rhodes, regions which were bestowed freedom and special privileges after the First Mithridatic War and maintained these privileges even afterwards. Asian autonomous issues only became fully integrated into the local monetary system during Augustan times through their linkage to the denarius and the cistophorus standards, but this process had already started during the course of the 2nd century BC. After a brief introduction of Augustan policy towards Asian non-autonomous silver coinage, this paper will provide a survey of the changes in the production and circulation of Asian autonomous silver issues under Roman dominion up to the Augustan Age, and will show how these changes were deeply intertwined with a gradual increase in Roman political control over the province of Asia from the beginning of the Roman period.
We would like to present nine articles by young researchers from Italy, Bulgaria, Austria, Latvia, and Poland concerning particular aspects of numismatics. The present publication is a summary of the Fourth International Numismatic and Economic Conference Pecunia Omnes Vincit held at the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum and Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, 12-13 May 2017. The articles direct the reader’s attention to various issues involving aspects of numismatics such as propaganda, coin finds, circulation, forgery, and economics. The subject matter of this publication focuses mostly on aspects of antiquity, mediaeval and new ages periods.
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