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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3384451, member: 44316&quot;]Long ago I made a web page with reverse types issued by only one emperor. The main page showed the reverse only and allowed you to click on the image to see a short page with both sides illustrated and the coin identified, including a description of the event which prompted the type.</p><p><br /></p><p>The page has been completely revised. Now only famous types are on page 1:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the site has been expanded to five times its previous size. There are now <b>six</b> pages of reverse images, each linking to the other pages. Pages 1 through 4 emphasize coins from before the tetrarchy. If you are only interested in late Roman coins, use the links on page 1 to skip to pages 5 and 6.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is what it is like.&nbsp; This image of a denarius is on page 1:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]898895[/ATTACH] </p><p>It links to </p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/DACCAP.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/DACCAP.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/DACCAP.html</a></p><p>where you can find out who issued it and from which you can go back its place on page 1. </p><p><br /></p><p>I checked the links and think they all work, but solicit corrections, even of minor errors such as misspellings. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Unique&quot; reverse types have interested me for decades. When I first created a page like this I knew there were quite a few unique reverse types, but as I worked on extending my initial one-page version it became clear there are very many types indeed. Yes, many emperors issued some &quot;stock&quot; types, but most issued types that reference current events. </p><p><br /></p><p>For decades there has been debate about whether coin really were &quot;the newspapers of their day&quot; or whether unique types didn&#039;t matter because people didn&#039;t read coins to get information. Martin Beckmann recently posted to Academia.edu his 2009 KLIO article, &quot;The Significance of Roman Imperial Coin Types,&quot; which uses a study of all the gold and sestertius types of Trajan to demonstrate that many types were unique to that emperor. He notes that silver required such massive production that they were subject to less change than gold and sestertii. Overall, he comes down firmly on the side that asserts coins were topical. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>I quote him.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&quot;Gold and bronze coin types were topical, frequently changed, and almost always clearly connected to the most important events in the developing history of the Empire. As such, most of them can be identified as news types. These coins generally had clear messages, and in some cases these messages were propagandistic: for example, Parthia was described on the coinage of 116–117 as Capta, when it was actually in a state of revolt.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you agree that reverse types are interesting. They often belong to particular emperors. Take a look here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You don&#039;t need to try all the pages at once. They are far too long. Bookmark it and come back after trying a few types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us a reverse type which belongs to only one emperor![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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