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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 6724608, member: 112342&quot;]Specifically Roman Imperial coins.</p><p>From my understanding the republican coins were issued by moneyer and generals who wanted to show their own family prides and achievements, like this Lepidus denarius,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1271080[/ATTACH]</p><p>During the Imperial time however the emperor took control of the gold and silver, while the Senate controlled the bronzes. And the main theme became the emperor&#039;s face on the obverse with gods or any achievements of the said emperor on reverse, like this Armenia denarius of Verus,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1271081[/ATTACH]My question is, with emperors just heading the mint as they had much more important things to worry about, and not directly controlling/issuing coins themselves like their Republican predecessors, how did the process of design approvals go? does the emperor specifically approve each designs, or does he tell the mint to make specific type in high frequency, like Domitian&#039;s Minerva issues? and what about the late Roman bronzes? I assume the emperors really didn&#039;t give two rats about what features as long as their name is on the coin, barring for commemoratives and the coins of Julian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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