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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8330651, member: 110226"]This is an interesting thread. I am not familiar with the relationship that Roman imperial coinage had in the empire vis a vis provincial Roman coinage. Certainly goods and services were paid through a combination of the two, since it is hard to conceive of any way imperial and provincial coinages were relegated to their individual spheres of circulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>With Athenian owls, which circulated through a wide swath of the eastern Mediterranean and beyond, the situation was totally different: the owls supplanted whatever local coinage existed, in silver at least, as the premiere coin of commerce. This dominance lasted until the flood of Alexandrian tetradrachm was issued from the later 4th century BC and beyond. Even with that, owls and their imitations continued to be issued in some parts of the East, notably Arabia, to the first century BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard to draw conclusions abut where and ancient coin was found, lacking proper documentation, which is the heavily predominant case, but coins do come to the market in what is pretty close to "as found" condition, which suggests a find of a local or regional nature.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Caligula AE As came as part of a small lot of rough and somewhat dirty Roman bronzes from Israel. I think it can be reasonably assumed that it circulated within the Levant, perhaps an within an even broader region.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1476613[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>What value did this As have in relationship to other coinages of this period and later periods?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8330651, member: 110226"]This is an interesting thread. I am not familiar with the relationship that Roman imperial coinage had in the empire vis a vis provincial Roman coinage. Certainly goods and services were paid through a combination of the two, since it is hard to conceive of any way imperial and provincial coinages were relegated to their individual spheres of circulation. With Athenian owls, which circulated through a wide swath of the eastern Mediterranean and beyond, the situation was totally different: the owls supplanted whatever local coinage existed, in silver at least, as the premiere coin of commerce. This dominance lasted until the flood of Alexandrian tetradrachm was issued from the later 4th century BC and beyond. Even with that, owls and their imitations continued to be issued in some parts of the East, notably Arabia, to the first century BC. It is hard to draw conclusions abut where and ancient coin was found, lacking proper documentation, which is the heavily predominant case, but coins do come to the market in what is pretty close to "as found" condition, which suggests a find of a local or regional nature. This Caligula AE As came as part of a small lot of rough and somewhat dirty Roman bronzes from Israel. I think it can be reasonably assumed that it circulated within the Levant, perhaps an within an even broader region. [ATTACH=full]1476613[/ATTACH] What value did this As have in relationship to other coinages of this period and later periods?[/QUOTE]
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