Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4597306, member: 89514&quot;]Most people agree that all of the latest gold and silver coins of Augustus and the entire gold and silver coinage of Tiberius were struck at Lugdunum. But by 69 AD, the gold and silver mint had apparently been moved to Rome, since Otho struck lots of gold and silver, certainly not at Lugdunum since he never had control of Gaul and that mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>So when was the mint moved? Mattingly proposed, in 37 AD, when Caligula&#039;s laureate head replaced his bare head on his aurei and denarii. Sutherland followed Mattingly&#039;s proposal in his revised RIC I of 1984. This, then, is the source for the idea that all of Claudius&#039; gold and silver coinage was struck at Rome, which has of course been taken over by OCRE and by many coin dealers who have naturally consulted the revised RIC in order to attribute their Julio-Claudian coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a much more obvious change in the gold and silver coinage in 64 AD, however, which most numismatists today think must reflect the transferal of the mint from Lugdunum to Rome. In 64 Nero lowered the weight and fineness of his gold and silver coins, and drastically altered their types. On the obv. an older, laureate portrait of the emperor with a wave of hair rising above his forehead was introduced, and the counterclockwise obv. legend was changed to clockwise. On the rev. new types with descriptive legends were introduced, replacing the letters EX SC and the imperial titles of Nero which were constant from TR P to TR P X. So it would appear that the mint was not moved until 64 AD, meaning that the entire gold and silver coinage of Claudius was still probably produced at Lugdunum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in