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Roman mints

Roman Republic

The main Roman mint during the Republic was Rome itself under the control of [montales tresviri] appointed by the Senate. Other mints, under the control of the Senate, in Italy and beyond were also established. Towards the end of the Republic the authority to mint shifted to Imperators, military commanders that struck military coinages, initially with permission from the Senate but later independently __ Roman world. __various silliness___

Early Empire

Augustus reorganized the coinage in 23 BC with the introduction of _base metal_ and later around 15 BC established a mint at Lugdunum, the capital of Gaul, (Lyon, France) to produce silver and gold coins (denarii, quinarii, and aurei). After minting imperial issues ceased in Spain and the East, it became the only mint producing precious metal coins until the Caligula __made__ Rome as the main location for the production of all denominations around 38 AD.

The original/traditional mint of Rome was situated next to(?) the temple of

Provincial mints

imperial vs. provincial, Ephesus

Late Empire

introduction of mint marks

West

• Londinium (London, England)
• Camulodunum (Colchester, England)
• Clausentum (Bitterne, England)
• Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne
  , Germany)
• Treveri (Trier, Germany)
• Moguntiacum (Mainz
  , Germany)
• Ambianum (Amiens, France)
• Iantinum (Meaux, France)
• Lugdunum (Lyon, France)
• Arelate [Arelatum/Constantina] (Arles
  , France)
• Barcino (Barcelona, Spain)
• Carthage [Carthago] (Tunis, Tunisia)

Italy/Pannonia/Dalmatia

• Mediolanum (Milan, Italy)
• Ticinum (Pavia, Italy)
• Aquileia (Italy)
• Ravenna (Italy)
• Rome [Roma] (Italy)
• Ostia
  (Italy)
• Siscia (Sisak
  , Croatia)
• Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia and Montenegro)
• Serdica (Sofia
  , Bulgaria)
• Salonika
  )

• Heraclea (Eregli, Turkey)
• Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
• Cyzicus (Kapu Dagh, Turkey)
• Izmit
  , Turkey)
• Odessa, Ukraine
  )
• Viminacium (Kostolac)

Syria/the Levant/Egypt

• Antiochia (Antioch)
• Laodicea ad Mare (Latakia, Syria)?
• Emesa
  (Syria)
• Tripolis (Tripoli, Lebanon)
• Alexandria (Egypt)

References

• Sear
• Vagi

See also

• Roman currency
• Roman Provincial coinage
• Latin names of European cities
  .

External links

• http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/mints.html
• http://www.ancient-times.com/info/mints.html
• http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/romemap.html
• http://www.ancientcoins.biz/pages/mints/
• http://oldmoney.vassar.edu/papers/latin_literature.html <- unrelated
• http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/B1.2.6.4.html <- provincial