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The Only Last Roman Coins Of The I-St Century?

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 Posted 03/13/2008  06:42 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add rakiura to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
there is an interesting article about the last ancient roman coins minted in the first century.
Denarius of Marcus Antonius and Silver Quinarius of Octavian are the main antique coins issued. the information is given very specificly only about these coins, wich are realy impresive, but where there minted other roman coins in the first century, beside these, that are not described in the article. I'm realy curious about this.. any ideas are
acceptable, please don't be shy to throw ideas.. thanks.

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First, to clarify. Both of these coins were issued in the first century BC (from 100 BC to 1 BC).
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...but where there minted other roman coins in the first century, beside these, that are not described in the article...

Of course. There were thousands of different designs and types, and that's not including the Roman provincials. For example, this page from Wildwinds lists coins issued during the "Imperatorial" period of Roman history, prior to the founding of the Empire under Augustus/Octavian.

Here's an example of the Mark Antony denarius from Wildwinds:
The-Only-Last-Roman-Coins-Of-The-I-St-Century?

And here's an Octavian quinarius:
The-Only-Last-Roman-Coins-Of-The-I-St-Century?

I have no idea why the author of that article considers these to be "last", because they certainly were not the "last coins to be struck in the first century BC". The only thing I can think of is that the Mark Antony denarii did re-enter circulation over a hundred years after they were issued, so in that sense they were the "last coins from the first century BC to circulate". But I don't know how the Octavian quinarius fits in with this theory.
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