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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 3092568, member: 56653&quot;]The quadrantes, even the anonymous ones are marked as official imperial coinage. The &quot;Mine coins&quot; are not, so were probably not part of the official imperial coinage. They probably did however serve a function at the local level, minted under direct Roman authority (so different from the provincials), but not tied to a specific event but rather the more prozaic economic reasons -- the need for currency in the local economy which was developing around the mines. </p><p><br /></p><p>As the mines where under direct imperial authority, it is possible that the administrators considered keeping these communities separated from the general economy or that these new but growing local economies had an exceeding need for currency that warranted these temporary emissions meant specifically for the local markets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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