Drachmas Doubloons and Dollars: The History of Money
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Ancient Rome
Introduction
Early Italian and Roman Republican Coinages (c. 500-88 BC) - Julius Caesar and the Late Republic (88-27 BC) - Augustus and the Roman Principate - Nero (AD 54-68) and Propaganda - Biblical Coins - Roman Provincial Coins - The Severan Family (AD 193-235) - Economic and Political Decline - The Late Roman Empire (AD 284-476)
Roman Provincial Coins

In the Provinces, Greek cities and Roman colonies struck their own bronze coins. These coins carry the imperial portrait on the obverse and a reverse image of local significance.
Bronze coin of Pergamum under Caracalla (AD 211-217) depicting three temples dedicated to the emperors.
Bronze coin of Neapolis under Philip I (AD 244-249) depicting a she-wolf suckling the twins Romulus and Remus before a shrine on Mount Gerizim in Samaria.
Bronze drachma (AD 139-140) of Alexandria under Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), depicting the head of the god Sarapis on a giant foot, an image of uncertain significance.