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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2836543, member: 56859&quot;]The tally is done (drumroll)... the participating members of CoinTalk have shown <b>215</b> cities of the approximately <b>679</b> ancient cities which had their own coins during times of Roman rule or oversight.&nbsp; That number is highly subjective-- determining what is and what isn&#039;t a &quot;Roman provincial coin&quot; was much harder than expected!</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, I took cues from <a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/intro/whatisrpc/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/intro/whatisrpc/" rel="nofollow">RPC Online</a>, with a pinch of collector bias <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Inclusion criteria:</p><ul> <li>Produced in Roman times (Republican through Imperial) in or for a city under some degree of Roman control or agreement;</li> <li>Non-Latin legends (there may be exceptions)</li> <li>Not just a close copy of a Rome-struck Imperial coin struck at a branch mint</li> </ul><p>There were many instances in which I wasn&#039;t sure how to proceed.&nbsp; For instance, nomes coinage of Egypt.&nbsp; Dattari&#039;s book lists a ton of nomes, but those are districts rather than cities.&nbsp; Also, it seems most likely that those &quot;nomes&quot; coins were struck in Alexandria.&nbsp; I went ahead and added the long list of nomes to the spreadsheet although maybe they don&#039;t really belong there.&nbsp; The reverse problem is appears for some issues of Severus Alexander and his family.&nbsp; The style of some of those Egyptian tetradrachms suggests Rome as the site of manufacture although in every other respect they are like other Alexandrian tetradrachms of the period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the cities may be repeated in the spreadsheet.&nbsp; Alliances were made, hyphens used, and generally those cities just didn&#039;t hold their names and borders steady for my 21st century convenience <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; The spreadsheet ended up many more entries than on the <a href="http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/orter.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/orter.htm" rel="nofollow">source list</a>.&nbsp; When a specific mint city wasn&#039;t known, I repeated the region name with &quot;uncertain mint&quot;.&nbsp; I did the best I could and am certainly open to corrections and improvements.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There have been some wondrous coins in this thread <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Can you imagine amassing almost 700 different cities?&nbsp; What an undertaking that would be!&nbsp; [USER=71599]@ancientone[/USER] appears to be heading that direction.&nbsp; His coins make up the overall majority of those posted in the thread as well as the majority of one-example-only cities.&nbsp; Bravo, [USER=71599]@ancientone[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E2tZfrXnmQZcb9XAQKHUQCTLOzFUsKeHfHJBfowiAwc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E2tZfrXnmQZcb9XAQKHUQCTLOzFUsKeHfHJBfowiAwc/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">Updated spreadsheet, alphabetical by city</a>.&nbsp; Note that if we showed a city&#039;s coin, I put the number &quot;1&quot; in the first column rather than maintaining a count of how many examples were shown.&nbsp; That&#039;s because I don&#039;t know how to do an automated tally.&nbsp; The &quot;count&quot; function on GoogleDocs didn&#039;t work as I expected so I had to resort to the &quot;sum&quot; function <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the OP I linked two versions of the spreadsheet:&nbsp; the one re-linked above (cities in by alphabet) and one in the traditional order of listing by regions.&nbsp; Forget about that second sheet.&nbsp; It was too difficult to sort it that way (I&#039;m a spreadsheet novice).&nbsp; That sheet will be deleted.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can copy the alphabetical spreadsheet to your own database program and manipulate it as you see fit.</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>Thank you</b> to all who participated and commented, and please continue to add any &quot;new&quot; cities you may acquire in the future.&nbsp; I&#039;ll continue to update the spreadsheet with your additions and corrections. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; This thread and the spreadsheet will remain a work in progress.</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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