adventures in my head
Here’s some useful bibliography, from a new-ish commentary on the Philippics: I’m sharing it particularly because it supports my strong suspicion that this is indeed also Tremulus on this later type (RRC 425/1; cf. RRC 293/1 illustrated above): Update 2/15/2016: Myles McDonnell makes the point very clearly in a footnote (p. 157):
I went looking for my notes on this subject and searched and searched the blog and couldn’t find the post I wanted. Only to realize that my notes were pre-blog! So for future easier searching here’s a collection of factoids related to RRC 293/1 (c. 113-2 BCE). The most important coin type for understanding this… Continue reading Goat Horn Helmets
I was thinking about the use of legends on the republican series to label or describe the images. The above type is a nice example of the use of abbreviation to do so. We can resolve it based on longer inscriptions in other contexts. I wanted to think about the phenomenon over time and by… Continue reading 314 out of 410 days: Descriptive Legends
On the denarius series the reverse is more flexible than the obverse and we see more variation soon there. The first big break in the design of both is likely to be this type of c. 137 or 136 BC: This type can be seen as borrowing from earlier Roman coin types and is thus… Continue reading Leaving Roma Behind
