Eastern Imitations and the Beginning of the Antiochene SC Coinage

The movement of, and imitation of, Roman coins beyond the boundaries of the Empire is a topic of interest to Aleksander Bursche, and he has shed a great deal of light on the presence of genuine Roman coins and their imitations, in Barbaricum. The northern frontiers are not the only place where these phenomena are encountered, although elsewhere the underlying mechanisms and motives may be substantially different. In Parthian-controlled Mesopotamia we find both genuine examples and imitative issues of an important coinage of the Roman east: the so-called ‘SC bronzes’ of Antioch.1 While many of these imitations are sufficiently distinct... \n \n

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• The Antioch Mint

  Open Access•Kevin Butcher•Antioch on the Orontes•2024

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