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The coinage of the Roman municipality of Utica (Proconsular Africa). Num.Antiqua 16.
VILLEMUR, Patrick.

The coinage of the Roman municipality of Utica (Proconsular Africa). Num.Antiqua 16.

Ausonius editions.
€35,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 30535
Format 21 x 29.7
Détails 197 p., 25 color illustrations, paperback.
Publication Bordeaux, 2024.
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782356135919
This monograph studies in detail the coinage of one of the most important mints in the Roman province of Africa and the last to have produced local coins. Utica, an old Phoenician city, often a rival of Carthage, which would succeed it as the seat of the proconsul of Africa, produced 27 monetary issues under Tiberius, between 15-16 and 30 AD: asses, semisses and quadrantes first, under the seventh imperial salutation of the adopted son of Augustus, then dupondii in the name of the proconsul C. Vibius Marsus, under the eighth salutation, whose iconography is, as much as their denominations, directly inspired by the Roman model. The first part recalls the geographical, historical and political context in which the city developed, before examining the characteristics of the coinage of the Roman municipality of Utica based on a sample of more than 430 coins from public and private collections and from trade, comparing them as necessary to the issues of other cities in the province, Carthage in particular, while a final chapter attempts to identify the place of this coinage in the monetary circulation of proconsular Africa and to determine its reasons for being. The catalog of the 27 issues forms the second part of the work. This is followed by 56 plates illustrating all the examples for which photos are available, as well as numerous comparison coins and the die identities noted between issues.
This monograph studies in detail the coinage of one of the most important mints in the Roman province of Africa and the last to have produced local coins. Utica, an old Phoenician city, often a rival of Carthage, which would succeed it as the seat of the proconsul of Africa, produced 27 monetary issues under Tiberius, between 15-16 and 30 AD: asses, semisses and quadrantes first, under the seventh imperial salutation of the adopted son of Augustus, then dupondii in the name of the proconsul C. Vibius Marsus, under the eighth salutation, whose iconography is, as much as their denominations, directly inspired by the Roman model. The first part recalls the geographical, historical and political context in which the city developed, before examining the characteristics of the coinage of the Roman municipality of Utica based on a sample of more than 430 coins from public and private collections and from trade, comparing them as necessary to the issues of other cities in the province, Carthage in particular, while a final chapter attempts to identify the place of this coinage in the monetary circulation of proconsular Africa and to determine its reasons for being. The catalog of the 27 issues forms the second part of the work. This is followed by 56 plates illustrating all the examples for which photos are available, as well as numerous comparison coins and the die identities noted between issues.