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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5183211, member: 19463"]Sometimes the online translation engines produce a text that make you wish you did read the text. For example, what I might call an officina seems to have been rendered 'pharmacy'??? The problem is that a book made from dead trees does not allow cut and paste which made the below not hard work but answered my curiosity about what was said about the Alexandria mint. The 2000 number refers to the number of examples (copies) seen which is really a small number of coins for a serious study but a lot when there were only 39 RIC numbers involved (remember that aurei and denarii share numbers, RIC ignored the two Alexandria denarius types and there are about 30 Provincial varieties). People who do not collect ancient coins have no concept of just how many of the things exist. </p><p><br /></p><p>I used to tell people I read enough French to use Cohen but those were the old days when Cohen was the best book I had. As I read the (blue) gibberish below, the book also discusses coins of the Provincial mints of which I have none but would love to find one sleeping somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything below the photos of my two Alexandria mint denarii is from the machine translation. These two are rather common on the market as long as you are not too picky about condition. I would enjoy seeing the book but I only have these two coins and have no likelihood of adding more ---- and I am not a 3 year old so learning French would be harder for me.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1212980[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1212981[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">The Roman Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax reigned for three months at the beginning of the year 193 AD. AD, after the assassination of Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius. This short period of time nevertheless enabled the imperial and local authorities to have a large number of coins minted in four issuing workshops: Rome, Alexandria, Tomis and Prusa ad Olympum. This book contains the complete catalog of these coins, based on a review of more than 2000 copies, with a classification by right and reverse corners, as well as a detailed study of each of the coin shops in operation under Pertinax.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">The volumes of metals minted in Rome, the estimation of the total number of coins minted in the four workshops and the analysis of the types and legends thus make it possible to specify and significantly renew the vision of this reign. The workshops in Rome and Alexandria are treated in a particularly in-depth manner: the functioning of the Roman Moneta is understood in the smallest details (organization of pharmacies), based on precise data and figures and not on mere guesses.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">The Alexandria mint, following the unpublished work of Roger A. Bickford-Smith, is given a coinage of Latin legend, in addition to the classic minting. This book is therefore intended for historians, researchers and students who will find there a summary of Pertinax's life, with an important point on his reign, but above all a synthesis based on unpublished research.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">The political reflections that led to the choice of monetary types are analyzed and explained. For the first time, the entire coinage of an emperor, including Roman and provincial mintages, is grouped together in a single volume and provides a complete and innovative working tool. However, this new volume from the Numismatica Antiqua collection will also be of interest to a wider audience, including archaeologists, museum curators, numismatists / collectors and art lovers more generally.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">The coins of Pertinax being rare and expensive, they have been since the 18th century particularly sought after and highlighted in public and private medalists. The complete publication of the Pertinax coinage is an opportunity for Institutions and individuals to improve their classifications, to verify the authenticity of their copies and to compare them with other coins.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">The very numerous end-of-volume plates (almost 100) offer a full illustration of all the combinations of right and reverse corners listed, and the figures placed in the text make it easy to grasp all the richness of the iconographic repertoire of the reign, monetary portraits of the emperor and his family to the types appearing on the reverse (gods ...). These illustrations will thus allow a large public, French and international, amateur or professional, to better understand an often forgotten reign, or even Roman numismatics in general.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5183211, member: 19463"]Sometimes the online translation engines produce a text that make you wish you did read the text. For example, what I might call an officina seems to have been rendered 'pharmacy'??? The problem is that a book made from dead trees does not allow cut and paste which made the below not hard work but answered my curiosity about what was said about the Alexandria mint. The 2000 number refers to the number of examples (copies) seen which is really a small number of coins for a serious study but a lot when there were only 39 RIC numbers involved (remember that aurei and denarii share numbers, RIC ignored the two Alexandria denarius types and there are about 30 Provincial varieties). People who do not collect ancient coins have no concept of just how many of the things exist. I used to tell people I read enough French to use Cohen but those were the old days when Cohen was the best book I had. As I read the (blue) gibberish below, the book also discusses coins of the Provincial mints of which I have none but would love to find one sleeping somewhere. Everything below the photos of my two Alexandria mint denarii is from the machine translation. These two are rather common on the market as long as you are not too picky about condition. I would enjoy seeing the book but I only have these two coins and have no likelihood of adding more ---- and I am not a 3 year old so learning French would be harder for me. [ATTACH=full]1212980[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1212981[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#0000b3]The Roman Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax reigned for three months at the beginning of the year 193 AD. AD, after the assassination of Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius. This short period of time nevertheless enabled the imperial and local authorities to have a large number of coins minted in four issuing workshops: Rome, Alexandria, Tomis and Prusa ad Olympum. This book contains the complete catalog of these coins, based on a review of more than 2000 copies, with a classification by right and reverse corners, as well as a detailed study of each of the coin shops in operation under Pertinax. The volumes of metals minted in Rome, the estimation of the total number of coins minted in the four workshops and the analysis of the types and legends thus make it possible to specify and significantly renew the vision of this reign. The workshops in Rome and Alexandria are treated in a particularly in-depth manner: the functioning of the Roman Moneta is understood in the smallest details (organization of pharmacies), based on precise data and figures and not on mere guesses. The Alexandria mint, following the unpublished work of Roger A. Bickford-Smith, is given a coinage of Latin legend, in addition to the classic minting. This book is therefore intended for historians, researchers and students who will find there a summary of Pertinax's life, with an important point on his reign, but above all a synthesis based on unpublished research. The political reflections that led to the choice of monetary types are analyzed and explained. For the first time, the entire coinage of an emperor, including Roman and provincial mintages, is grouped together in a single volume and provides a complete and innovative working tool. However, this new volume from the Numismatica Antiqua collection will also be of interest to a wider audience, including archaeologists, museum curators, numismatists / collectors and art lovers more generally. The coins of Pertinax being rare and expensive, they have been since the 18th century particularly sought after and highlighted in public and private medalists. The complete publication of the Pertinax coinage is an opportunity for Institutions and individuals to improve their classifications, to verify the authenticity of their copies and to compare them with other coins. The very numerous end-of-volume plates (almost 100) offer a full illustration of all the combinations of right and reverse corners listed, and the figures placed in the text make it easy to grasp all the richness of the iconographic repertoire of the reign, monetary portraits of the emperor and his family to the types appearing on the reverse (gods ...). These illustrations will thus allow a large public, French and international, amateur or professional, to better understand an often forgotten reign, or even Roman numismatics in general.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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