Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.

1 - Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces
2 - Aspects of identity
3 - The chronological development of Roman provincial coin iconography
4 - The cities and their money
5 - Coinage and identity in pre-conquest Britain: 50 BC-AD 50
6 - Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces: Spain
7 - `Belonging' to Rome, `remaining' Greek: Coinage and identity in Roman Macedonia
8 - Religious-cultural identity in Thrace and Moesia Inferior
9 - Local mythologies in the Greek East
10 - Festivals and games in the cities of the East during the Roman Empire
11 - Pergamum as paradigm
12 - Information, legitimation or self-legitimation? Popular and elite designs on the coin types of Syria
13 - City eras on Palestinian coinage
14 - Coinage and identity: The Jewish evidence
15 - The nome coins of Roman Egypt
16 - The Roman West and the Roman East

Christopher Howgego is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Reader in Greek and Roman Numismatics in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Wolfson College Volker Heuchert is Collections Manager of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum and AHRB Institutional Fellow for the Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period Project (AHRB and University of Oxford) Andrew Burnett is Deputy Director and Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum