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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 4807039, member: 109923&quot;]It&#039;s a debatable point, since there doesn&#039;t appear to be enough evidence either way. The mint is uncertain, who is depicted is uncertain and it&#039;s not even clear who Indutillus or Germanus were. What is meant by &#039;provincial&#039; is also debatable.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a new province, the pre-Roman coins might continue to be minted. Other times, the Romans just let the locals get on with it and mint their own bronzes (such as the barbarous issues in Britain and Gaul).</p><p><br /></p><p>For a coin to be provincial, though, I would imagine it should be minted under the civic authority of that province (e.g. the governor), and not just in the province. Even then there might be doubt. Indutillus might have been a local tribal leader given authority to mint coins by Rome. And of course, Roman politics was a messy and ever-changing business - it&#039;s sometimes not clear who was in charge at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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