Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte · Volume 9 (1958)
Zur römisch-campanischen Didrachmenprägung
- pp. 87–97, Tf.2-3
- Article
- German
Abstract
A happy combination by Harold Mattingly brought the realisation years ago that Pliny's report, that Rome first struck silver of its own five years before the First Punic War, can refer only to the Romano-Campanian series. That reading overturned the view until then accepted, that the denarius was meant, and set in motion a question long held to be settled. The majority of scholars accepted the new date and with it the late dating of the denarius, but the old early dating still has eager defenders, especially in Italy. Even more disputed than the chronology is the question of the mints; the paper first sets side by side the systems of Breglia, Mattingly and Sydenham, which agree as little about one or several mints as they do about the beginning of striking.
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Küthmann, Harald: Zur römisch-campanischen Didrachmenprägung. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 9 (1958), pp. 87–97, Tf.2-3.