![]() The coins are billon Antoninianus of the emperors Victorinus and Tetricus and grade About Very Fine. These coins have been tucked away since then and we are able to offer you a very limited quantity that we were able to purchase. In 1975, the 4th Earl of Selborne decided to sell what he still had left of the hoard when it was auctioned by Christie’s on 9 December 1975. Close to the location of the main coin find several other items have been found including bronze swords, spearheads, axe-heads, pottery, and other articles in metal including more coins. The hoard could be the unrecovered pay chest for the defeated armies of Allectus. 296, the year of a battle near Woolmer, where the troops under the Emperor Constantius Chlorus defeated the army of the famous usurper Allectus to retake control of Britain. The hoard consisted of coins dating up to around A.D. The coins were closely packed and caked together with dirt so had to be carefully excavated, cleaned, and studied. On the 30th of October 1873, two large pear-shaped pots containing 29,802 Roman coins were dug up in Blackmoor Park in the parish of Selborne, Hampshire, halfway between Alton and Petersfield. Our coins have also been tagged according to the dynasty an emperor belongs to. Some will also attempt to have every single issue of a particular denomination for one Emperor.Īs there are many ways to collect, we have chosen to present our stock in the easiest way possible and divide our ancient Roman coins into Roman Silver Coins ( Roman Republic Coins and Roman Imperial Coins) and Roman Bronze Coins. Some collectors attempt to have a coin for every Emperor, while many others may choose a particular point in history to focus on. Roman coinage lasted for eight centuries, so there are a number of ways to collect them. All of them have had their portraits immortalised on coins. Later his great-nephew Octavian (Augustus) adopted the idea, and so did all the Roman emperors that came after him. This act shocked the senate who considered it to be an extreme act of arrogance on Caesar's part, as only gods and kings were featured on coins. Julius Caesar was the first living Roman to issue coins bearing his own portrait. In Imperial times, coins became symbols of power and were used to disseminate the Emperor’s image across the empire as having god-like status. Examples are the silver denarii depicting Rome’s founders Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, as well as the denarius featuring Hercules strangling the Nemean lion on the reverse. Many interesting Roman coins were made during this period. These Bronze ingots or bars had designs on both sides and were most likely exchangeable by weight.Īs Rome expanded and started to trade with other city-states, the Romans realised that to facilitate trade they would need to have silver coins as well as struck bronzes.ĭuring the time of the republic, the Romans took inspiration from the Ancient Greeks and heavily featured mythology on their coins. The early Roman Coinage of the Republic consisted of a system of weights (Aes Grave) issued before 280 B.C.
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