Later Roman Coinage

This website is dedicated to Roman coinage and history, particularly that of the third century AD. I hope to aim its contents at both collectors and students alike and, with a bit of luck, encourage others to take an interest in the hobby of collecting Roman coins.

If you should spot any errors, fact or HTML, please e-mail me at r_j_b@talk21.com. Also please report any dead links.

CARAUSIUS - "Marti Fautori" - Innovation or Copy?	VALERIAN II - An Error from the Gallic Mint	CONSTANTINE AUGUSTUS - An error in a copy of a Ticinum coin
HANNIBALLIANUS REX - An obscure fourth century issue	SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS - Two Eastern mint denarii	A LAUREATE TACITUS BRONZE - The second recorded example of a rare coin of Tacitus
ROMAN TEMPLES - A small collection of temples on Roman and Greek Imperial coins	THE GALLIC EMPIRE - The antoniniani of Postumus, Laelian, Marius, Victorinus and the Tetrici	POSTUMUS' BRONZE The sestertii and double sestertii of postumus
MACRINUS AND DIADUMENIAN - A brief history	AN UNUSUAL CROWN FOR GALLIENUS A strange variation to the usual radiate crown	VALERIAN I (?) - A bronze coin from Pisidian Antioch
GALLIC CONSULS - An introduction to officials not named on the coinage	HELP 1 - Can anybody help me and identify this Roman provincial coin?	HELP 2 - Can anybody help me with two more provincials?
GALLIC EMPIRE CATALOGUE - A concordance between RIC and Elmer of the antoniniani of the Gallic Empire [Laelianus, Marius, Domitianus, Tetricus I & II] (Excel format)	THIRD CENTURY IMMITATIONS - A brief examination of the "Barbarous Radiate" phenomena	AURELIAN - A biography and discussion of numismatic themes during the reign of Aurelian
BICHARACTAM PECUNIA - Inscriptional evidence for the name of a late Roman coin denomination

Doug Smith A huge and very informative set of pages on ancient coins, well illustrated too. May soon disappear which would be a shame.	Mike Vosper A Norfolk based dealer in ancient and mediaeval coins with useful web links.	Numismatic Books If you like numismatic books Lee Toone's site is a must: news of books for sale and an index of on-line texts
BANS The British Association of Numismatic Societies - find like minded people in your own area!	SNG The British volumes of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum online, an on-going project!	Gordian III A comprehensive on-line collection
Philip I & Family A comprehensive on-line collection	Gallienus A comprehensive on-line collection catalogued by Göbl number	Wildwinds database A huge illustrated database of ancient coins
Forvm Coins American dealers in ancient coins with a very good discussion board.	Moushmov's Catalogue An on-line catalogue of the Balkan Greek Imperials	Antioch in Pisidia An outline history illustrated with coin types
Coinage of Moesia Inferior and Thrace A site in German and English specialising in coins from these provinces	Ancientcoins.biz A site with much information on early Roman countermarks and more besides	Romancoins.info Another good site for information on early Imperial countermarks
Roman Britain Guy de la Bedoyere's site covering a number of aspects of Roman life including a page on Carausius	Carausius and Allectus An informative page by Ken Elks on the coinage of the two British usurpers	The Perseus Project Ancient texts in translation
Severus Alexander The coins and history surrounding the last member of the family of Septimius Severus to rule the empire	Probvs.info A large site dedicated to the coins of Probus	"Lord Best's gallery" A site that includes a good portrait gallery of Roman emperors and their families from sculpture in the round