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The largest documented hoard of aurei ever found - KARL-JOSEF GILLES, DER RÖMISCHE GOLDMÜNZENSCHATZ AUS DER FELDSTRASSE IN TRIER (Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier; Trierer Zeitschrift, Beiheft 34, 2013). S. 269 mit zahlreichen Abb., many in colour (book includes 105 full plates illustrating all the coins in the hoard). ISSN 7607-; ISBN 978-3-923319-82-4. EUR. 78,- through December 2013; thereafter EUR 98,-

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Martin Beckmann
Martin Beckmann*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Classics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, beckmann@mcmaster.ca
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 755 - 757
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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2014

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References

1 E.g., aureus 1931, minted in the name of Trajan and depicting an image of his Forum, is a variant of RIC 255, but this variant appears in the catalogue of the Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum (Trajan 509)Google Scholar, which appeared 10 years after RIC.

2 Catalogues nos. 1122-23 and 1134 (of Vespasian) show a shape above the reverse legend that appears to be the result of a die chip; the progress of this damage over time is visible in the illustrations of 1122 (earlier) and 1134 (later; these are the same die) on p. 37. Similarly, no. 1703, of Vespasian for Domitian, is listed (38) as a variant based on an apparent reverse legend of KOS V instead of COS V; the vertical bar of the apparent K is also likely to be the result of die damage altering the appearance of the C.

3 Gilles (42) identifies a coin of Antoninus Pius (no. 2239) as having an unknown type, based on interpreting the tiny figure held by Roma as a trophy rather than a Victory or a Palladium. A trophy would make the type new, but to my eye the 3 dots above the “head” of the figure were probably intended to represent the 3 crests of Athena’s helmet and would thus indicate that this figure should be identified as a Palladium, making the coin a known type.

4 On the particular importance of the gold coinage as bearer of topical types, see Beckmann, M., “The significance of Roman Imperial coin types,” Klio 91 (2009) 162–95CrossRefGoogle Scholar.