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<p>[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 3730062, member: 99554"]<i>Oh Lyon, la belle cité !</i></p><p>Maybe you’ll call me a chauvinist. Lugdunum (Lyon), this is true, is the hometown of my ancestors.But it’s also a place with a rich history in the ancient Roman world. So let’s overview some interesting details about this famous <i>polis </i>and mostly about his monetary workshop.</p><p><b>The city</b></p><p>Lugdunum and its region are at the crossroads of Western Europe, joining the North Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Europe to the Atlantic Ocean. Many centuries ago, it was built for his strategic location. Today it is still the third biggest city in France. Lugdunum is composed of two Gallic words : <b>Lug </b>was the Celtic god of the order and the right, and <b>dunos </b>(fortress or hill), the whole thus designating the “fortress of Lug”. In Roman times, the city was called <i>Caput Gallilae</i>, “capital of Gaul”. It was founded in 43 BC and reached a population of up to 200000 inhabitants at the summum of its glory.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Portrait_d%27homme_dit_Plancus_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Lugdunum%2C_2001.0.307.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>LUCIUS MUNATIUS PLANCUS, FOUNDER OF LUGDUNUM</p><p><br /></p><p>The city was the subject of many attentions from the emperors. Augustus came at least three times, Drusus, brother of the future emperor Tiberius, resided in Lyon for four years. The city also received the visit of the emperors Caligula between 37 and 41 and Claude in 43 and 44. According to Suetonius, during one of his visit, Caligula organized a contest of eloquence in greek or latin. The competitors who had particularly displeased him were ordered to erase their writings with a sponge or with their tongues, unless they would be beaten or rushed into the nearby river...</p><p>In 64 AD, the dignitaries of the city heard about the fire that ravaged Rome, so they decided to send 4 million sesterces to help for the reconstruction. The next year, in 65 AD, Lugdunum was also hit by a terrible fire ; Nero donated the same amount of money to assist the citizens in the restoration of the town. The city lost a part of his glory at the end of the 2nd century AD when Lugdunum took the side of Clodius Albinus in the civil war of 196-197. After Septimius Severus defeated Albinus in the “battle of Lugdunum”, he made them pay and punished the city severely by confiscation, banishment or execution. It was also plundered and badly damaged in the battle ; Lugdunum never fully recovered from the devastation of the war, but it would still be for more than 100 years the most important city of Gaul. Finally, at the end of the 3rd century, during the reorganization of the Tetrarchy, Lugdunum lost his rank of capital of Gaul in 297 AD, in favor of Trier, closer to the Rhine border.</p><p><br /></p><p>QUIZ : Two emperors and a famous governor known in profane and biblical history are born in Lugdunum. Could you name them ?</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Roman_theatre_in_Lyon.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>A ROMAN THEATRE IN LYON</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The mint</b></p><p>A monetary workshop is created in Lugdunum from 43 BC , the year the city was founded. This first workshop is promoted to the rank of imperial currency workshop in 15 BC, when Octavian became Augustus. It rapidly becomes one of the most important workshops of the Empire. The workshop then changes dimension, in order to provide for the pay of soldiers stationed in Gaul or the Rhine region mostly. Between 15 BC and 64 AD, under the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, this workshop of Lugdunum is the only one of the Roman Empire to strike gold and silver. (At this time there were no mintmarks and coins are attributed to the mint on the basis of their style ,including features such as the addition of a globe at the base of the bust).The existing production under Nero continues under Galba. There does not seem to be any more strikes under Otto, who would only have struck in Rome. The workshop is reopened by Vitellius and he then issues only gold and silver coins. The mint closes in 78 AD, to reopen only very temporarily in 197 AD, under Clodius Albinus. The pretender, coming from Brittany, stops at Lugdunum and strucked a series of money to get ready for his attack against Rome. The workshop is set up quickly and works a few months. </p><p>We will have to wait until the end of the 3rd century under Aurelian, possibly in 274 AD, so that the mint really restart his service, because of the increase of activity of the legions to pay during these times of anarchy. The workshop again takes the lead in the production of the official currencies of the Empire. However from 294 AD the Roman imperial power took the decision to create a monetary workshop in Trier, and the Lugdunum workshop is thus reduced to the rank of secondary mint. Production activities never ceased during the 4th century until the beginning of the 5th century, around 413 AD.</p><p>This mint was active under the following issuers:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/1" rel="nofollow">Augustus</a> - 31 BC - AD 14 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/7" rel="nofollow">Tiberius</a> - AD 14 - AD 37 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/84" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/84" rel="nofollow">Antonia</a> - AD 41 - AD 54 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/3" rel="nofollow">Claudius</a> - AD 41 - AD 54 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/12" rel="nofollow">Nero</a> - AD 54 - AD 68 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/6" rel="nofollow">Galba</a> - AD 68 - AD 69 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/10" rel="nofollow">Vespasian</a> - AD 69 - AD 79 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/14" rel="nofollow">Vitellius</a> - AD 69 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/8" rel="nofollow">Titus</a> - AD 79 - AD 81 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/9" rel="nofollow">Domitian</a> - AD 81 - AD 96 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/26" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/26" rel="nofollow">Clodius Albinus</a> - AD 193 - AD 197</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/59" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/59" rel="nofollow">Postumus</a> - AD 260 - AD 269 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/41" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/41" rel="nofollow">Aurelian</a> - AD 270 - AD 275 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/143" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/143" rel="nofollow">Severina</a> - AD 270 - AD </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/48" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/48" rel="nofollow">Florian</a> - AD 276 - AD 276 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/60" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/60" rel="nofollow">Probus</a> - AD 276 - AD 282 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/45" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/45" rel="nofollow">Carus</a> - AD 282 - AD 283 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/57" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/57" rel="nofollow">Numerian</a> - AD 282 - AD 284</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/44" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/44" rel="nofollow">Carinus</a> - AD 283 - AD 285 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/122" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/122" rel="nofollow">Magnia Urbica</a> - AD 283 - AD 285 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/204" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/204" rel="nofollow">Diocletian (pre-reform)</a> - AD 284 - AD 294 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/47" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/47" rel="nofollow">Diocletian</a> - AD 284 - AD 305 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/203" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/203" rel="nofollow">Maximian I (pre-reform)</a> - AD 286 - AD 294 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/56" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/56" rel="nofollow">Maximian I</a> - AD 286 - AD 310 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/106" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/106" rel="nofollow">Galerius</a> - AD 293 - AD 311</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/74" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/74" rel="nofollow">Constantius I</a> - AD 293 - AD 306 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/197" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/197" rel="nofollow">Galerius (pre-reform)</a> - AD 293 - AD 311</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/144" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/144" rel="nofollow">Severus</a> - AD 305 - AD 307 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/130" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/130" rel="nofollow">Maximinus Daia</a> - AD 305 - AD 313 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/129" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/129" rel="nofollow">Maxentius</a> - AD 306 - AD 312 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/96" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/96" rel="nofollow">Constantine I</a> - AD 306 - AD 337 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/119" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/119" rel="nofollow">Licinius I</a> - AD 308 - AD 324 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/97" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/97" rel="nofollow">Constantine II</a> - AD 317 - AD 340 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/87" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/87" rel="nofollow">Crispus</a> - AD 317 - AD 326 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/120" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/120" rel="nofollow">Licinius II</a> - AD 317 - AD 324 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/100" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/100" rel="nofollow">Constantius II</a> - AD 323 - AD 361 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/103" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/103" rel="nofollow">Fausta</a> - AD 324 - AD 328 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/109" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/109" rel="nofollow">Helena</a> - AD 324 - AD 341 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/86" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/86" rel="nofollow">Constans</a> - AD 333 - AD 350 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/92" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/92" rel="nofollow">Dalmatius</a> - AD 335 - AD 337 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/91" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/91" rel="nofollow">Decentius</a> - AD 350 - 353</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/121" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/121" rel="nofollow">Magnentius</a> - AD 350 - AD 353</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/99" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/99" rel="nofollow">Constantius Gallus</a> - AD 351 - AD 354 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/155" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/155" rel="nofollow">Julian</a> - AD 355 - AD 363 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/115" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/115" rel="nofollow">Jovian</a> - AD 363 - AD 364 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/150" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/150" rel="nofollow">Valens</a> - AD 364 - AD 378 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/151" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/151" rel="nofollow">Valentinian I</a> - AD 364 - AD 375</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/107" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/107" rel="nofollow">Gratian</a> - AD 367 - AD 383 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/152" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/152" rel="nofollow">Valentinian II</a> - AD 375 - AD 392</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/147" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/147" rel="nofollow">Theodosius I</a> - AD 379 - AD 395 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/123" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/123" rel="nofollow">Magnus Maximus</a> - AD 383 - AD 388 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/85" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/85" rel="nofollow">Arcadius</a> - AD 383 - AD 408 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/104" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/104" rel="nofollow">Flavius Victor</a> - AD 387 - AD 388</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/102" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/102" rel="nofollow">Eugenius</a> - AD 392 - AD 394 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/112" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/112" rel="nofollow">Honorius (emperor)</a> - AD 393 - AD 423 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/98" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/98" rel="nofollow">Constantine III</a> - AD 407 - AD 411</li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/116" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/116" rel="nofollow">Jovinus</a> - AD 411 - AD 413 </li> <li><a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/223" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/223" rel="nofollow">Constantius III</a> - AD 421 - AD 421 </li> </ul><p>Now here’s the <b>CHALLENGE</b> : how many different coins from Lugdunum can we post ? I ask for your help, Coin Talk members. <b>Show us your Lugdunum babies !</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>These are mine : </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000125[/ATTACH] </p><p>CLAUDIUS RIC 52</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000127[/ATTACH] </p><p>TITUS RIC 1273</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000130[/ATTACH] </p><p>PROBUS RIC 37</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1000131[/ATTACH] </p><p>DIOCLETIAN RIC 216</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 3730062, member: 99554"][I]Oh Lyon, la belle cité ![/I] Maybe you’ll call me a chauvinist. Lugdunum (Lyon), this is true, is the hometown of my ancestors.But it’s also a place with a rich history in the ancient Roman world. So let’s overview some interesting details about this famous [I]polis [/I]and mostly about his monetary workshop. [B]The city[/B] Lugdunum and its region are at the crossroads of Western Europe, joining the North Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Europe to the Atlantic Ocean. Many centuries ago, it was built for his strategic location. Today it is still the third biggest city in France. Lugdunum is composed of two Gallic words : [B]Lug [/B]was the Celtic god of the order and the right, and [B]dunos [/B](fortress or hill), the whole thus designating the “fortress of Lug”. In Roman times, the city was called [I]Caput Gallilae[/I], “capital of Gaul”. It was founded in 43 BC and reached a population of up to 200000 inhabitants at the summum of its glory. [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Portrait_d%27homme_dit_Plancus_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Lugdunum%2C_2001.0.307.jpg[/IMG] LUCIUS MUNATIUS PLANCUS, FOUNDER OF LUGDUNUM The city was the subject of many attentions from the emperors. Augustus came at least three times, Drusus, brother of the future emperor Tiberius, resided in Lyon for four years. The city also received the visit of the emperors Caligula between 37 and 41 and Claude in 43 and 44. According to Suetonius, during one of his visit, Caligula organized a contest of eloquence in greek or latin. The competitors who had particularly displeased him were ordered to erase their writings with a sponge or with their tongues, unless they would be beaten or rushed into the nearby river... In 64 AD, the dignitaries of the city heard about the fire that ravaged Rome, so they decided to send 4 million sesterces to help for the reconstruction. The next year, in 65 AD, Lugdunum was also hit by a terrible fire ; Nero donated the same amount of money to assist the citizens in the restoration of the town. The city lost a part of his glory at the end of the 2nd century AD when Lugdunum took the side of Clodius Albinus in the civil war of 196-197. After Septimius Severus defeated Albinus in the “battle of Lugdunum”, he made them pay and punished the city severely by confiscation, banishment or execution. It was also plundered and badly damaged in the battle ; Lugdunum never fully recovered from the devastation of the war, but it would still be for more than 100 years the most important city of Gaul. Finally, at the end of the 3rd century, during the reorganization of the Tetrarchy, Lugdunum lost his rank of capital of Gaul in 297 AD, in favor of Trier, closer to the Rhine border. QUIZ : Two emperors and a famous governor known in profane and biblical history are born in Lugdunum. Could you name them ? [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Roman_theatre_in_Lyon.jpg[/IMG] A ROMAN THEATRE IN LYON [B]The mint[/B] A monetary workshop is created in Lugdunum from 43 BC , the year the city was founded. This first workshop is promoted to the rank of imperial currency workshop in 15 BC, when Octavian became Augustus. It rapidly becomes one of the most important workshops of the Empire. The workshop then changes dimension, in order to provide for the pay of soldiers stationed in Gaul or the Rhine region mostly. Between 15 BC and 64 AD, under the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, this workshop of Lugdunum is the only one of the Roman Empire to strike gold and silver. (At this time there were no mintmarks and coins are attributed to the mint on the basis of their style ,including features such as the addition of a globe at the base of the bust).The existing production under Nero continues under Galba. There does not seem to be any more strikes under Otto, who would only have struck in Rome. The workshop is reopened by Vitellius and he then issues only gold and silver coins. The mint closes in 78 AD, to reopen only very temporarily in 197 AD, under Clodius Albinus. The pretender, coming from Brittany, stops at Lugdunum and strucked a series of money to get ready for his attack against Rome. The workshop is set up quickly and works a few months. We will have to wait until the end of the 3rd century under Aurelian, possibly in 274 AD, so that the mint really restart his service, because of the increase of activity of the legions to pay during these times of anarchy. The workshop again takes the lead in the production of the official currencies of the Empire. However from 294 AD the Roman imperial power took the decision to create a monetary workshop in Trier, and the Lugdunum workshop is thus reduced to the rank of secondary mint. Production activities never ceased during the 4th century until the beginning of the 5th century, around 413 AD. This mint was active under the following issuers: [LIST] [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/1']Augustus[/URL] - 31 BC - AD 14 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/7']Tiberius[/URL] - AD 14 - AD 37 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/84']Antonia[/URL] - AD 41 - AD 54 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/3']Claudius[/URL] - AD 41 - AD 54 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/12']Nero[/URL] - AD 54 - AD 68 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/6']Galba[/URL] - AD 68 - AD 69 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/10']Vespasian[/URL] - AD 69 - AD 79 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/14']Vitellius[/URL] - AD 69 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/8']Titus[/URL] - AD 79 - AD 81 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/9']Domitian[/URL] - AD 81 - AD 96 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/26']Clodius Albinus[/URL] - AD 193 - AD 197 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/59']Postumus[/URL] - AD 260 - AD 269 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/41']Aurelian[/URL] - AD 270 - AD 275 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/143']Severina[/URL] - AD 270 - AD [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/48']Florian[/URL] - AD 276 - AD 276 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/60']Probus[/URL] - AD 276 - AD 282 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/45']Carus[/URL] - AD 282 - AD 283 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/57']Numerian[/URL] - AD 282 - AD 284 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/44']Carinus[/URL] - AD 283 - AD 285 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/122']Magnia Urbica[/URL] - AD 283 - AD 285 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/204']Diocletian (pre-reform)[/URL] - AD 284 - AD 294 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/47']Diocletian[/URL] - AD 284 - AD 305 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/203']Maximian I (pre-reform)[/URL] - AD 286 - AD 294 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/56']Maximian I[/URL] - AD 286 - AD 310 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/106']Galerius[/URL] - AD 293 - AD 311 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/74']Constantius I[/URL] - AD 293 - AD 306 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/197']Galerius (pre-reform)[/URL] - AD 293 - AD 311 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/144']Severus[/URL] - AD 305 - AD 307 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/130']Maximinus Daia[/URL] - AD 305 - AD 313 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/129']Maxentius[/URL] - AD 306 - AD 312 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/96']Constantine I[/URL] - AD 306 - AD 337 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/119']Licinius I[/URL] - AD 308 - AD 324 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/97']Constantine II[/URL] - AD 317 - AD 340 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/87']Crispus[/URL] - AD 317 - AD 326 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/120']Licinius II[/URL] - AD 317 - AD 324 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/100']Constantius II[/URL] - AD 323 - AD 361 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/103']Fausta[/URL] - AD 324 - AD 328 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/109']Helena[/URL] - AD 324 - AD 341 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/86']Constans[/URL] - AD 333 - AD 350 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/92']Dalmatius[/URL] - AD 335 - AD 337 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/91']Decentius[/URL] - AD 350 - 353 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/121']Magnentius[/URL] - AD 350 - AD 353 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/99']Constantius Gallus[/URL] - AD 351 - AD 354 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/155']Julian[/URL] - AD 355 - AD 363 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/115']Jovian[/URL] - AD 363 - AD 364 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/150']Valens[/URL] - AD 364 - AD 378 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/151']Valentinian I[/URL] - AD 364 - AD 375 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/107']Gratian[/URL] - AD 367 - AD 383 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/152']Valentinian II[/URL] - AD 375 - AD 392 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/147']Theodosius I[/URL] - AD 379 - AD 395 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/123']Magnus Maximus[/URL] - AD 383 - AD 388 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/85']Arcadius[/URL] - AD 383 - AD 408 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/104']Flavius Victor[/URL] - AD 387 - AD 388 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/102']Eugenius[/URL] - AD 392 - AD 394 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/112']Honorius (emperor)[/URL] - AD 393 - AD 423 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/98']Constantine III[/URL] - AD 407 - AD 411 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/116']Jovinus[/URL] - AD 411 - AD 413 [*][URL='https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/emperors/emperor/id/223']Constantius III[/URL] - AD 421 - AD 421 [/LIST] Now here’s the [B]CHALLENGE[/B] : how many different coins from Lugdunum can we post ? I ask for your help, Coin Talk members. [B]Show us your Lugdunum babies ! [/B] These are mine : [ATTACH=full]1000125[/ATTACH] CLAUDIUS RIC 52 [ATTACH=full]1000127[/ATTACH] TITUS RIC 1273 [ATTACH=full]1000130[/ATTACH] PROBUS RIC 37 [ATTACH=full]1000131[/ATTACH] DIOCLETIAN RIC 216 [B][/B][/QUOTE]
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