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Alexander the Great: coinage of the Kingdoms

Silver coinage of Alexander III of Macedon (336–323 BC) and the posthumous issues struck in his name: the lifetime tetradrachms of Amphipolis and Babylon, and the immense posthumous coinage that made the Alexander type the standard of the Hellenistic world. From the PELLA dataset.

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Roman Republic: denarii

The denarius coinage of the Roman Republic from the Corpus of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO): the moneyers of the second and first centuries BC with their ancestral portraits, triumphal types and the great political issues of the late Republic.

Caracalla: coins of Rome

Coins of Caracalla (AD 198–217) from Rome: the son of Septimius Severus, his joint reign with Geta, the Antonine constitution and the great Parthian war, with the introduction of the antoninianus at the end of his reign. RIC IV.1.

Septimius Severus: coins of Rome

Denarii of Septimius Severus (AD 193–211) from Rome: the founder of the Severan dynasty, his Parthian victory types and the elevation of the imperial family — Julia Domna, Caracalla and Geta on the coinage. RIC IV.1.

Commodus: coins of Rome

Coinage of Commodus (AD 177–192) from Rome: from the youthful joint reign with Marcus Aurelius to the extraordinary “Roman Hercules” types of the late 180s. The portraiture charts the transformation of the emperor. RIC III.

Marcus Aurelius: coins of Rome

Denarii of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161–180) from Rome: the shared reign with Lucius Verus, the Marcomannic wars with their “Germanic” types, and the stoic emperor’s own philosophical legends. RIC III.

Domitian: coins of Rome

Coins of Domitian (AD 81–96) from Rome: the carefully controlled silver of his later reign, the Minerva reverses of the German and Dacian wars, and the remarkable quality of the imperial portraiture. RIC II (1st ed.).

Vespasian: coins of Rome

Imperial coinage of Vespasian (AD 69–79) from Rome: the restoration of the state after the civil wars expressed in the Judaea Capta series, the “Roma resurgens” types and the dynastic portraits of Titus and Domitian. RIC II (1st ed.).

Augustus: coins of Rome

Coinage struck for Augustus (27 BC–AD 14) at the mint of Rome: the restored denarius issues of the moneyers, the A GENIO POPVLI ROMANI series, and the imperial types with Gaius and Lucius on the reverse. References after RIC I (2nd ed.).

Antoninus Pius: denarii of Rome

Denarii of Antoninus Pius (AD 138–161) struck at Rome — the long and peaceful reign that gave the denarius its most stable silver content of the second century. Types and legends after RIC III.

Nero: coins of Rome

Imperial coinage of Nero (AD 54–68) from Rome: the reformed aurei and denarii of the post-AD 64 weight standard, including the celebrated issues with the closed doors of the Temple of Janus. Catalog references follow RIC I (2nd ed.).

Trajan: denarii of Rome

A curated run of denarii struck for Trajan (AD 98–117) at the mint of Rome, from the issues of the Second Dacian War through the years of the Parthian campaign. Types follow RIC II; weights and axes are taken from museum specimens recorded in the CANOA corpus.