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The regular representation of the built environment on coins was a purely Roman phenomenon among the ancients. In the Greek world, architectural representation on coinage was very uncommon; when it did appear it referred directly to the local identity of the issuing state. Coins of the Persian satrapies only rarely depicted fortifications in conjunction with traditional Persian emblems of royalty, power, and shrines of the chief deities in the minting city. The Roman use of the iconography of building was fundamentally different. From the first occurrence in 135 BC through the late Roman Empire, the architectural images on coins from Rome commemorated or politicized the monument in question. By the mid-first century BC and into the Imperial period, architecture had become commonplace in the repertoire of Roman coin iconography. Representation of monuments is one of the most beloved (and belabored) topics in studies of Roman coin iconography. It is also a theme in dire need of re-explor

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Vol. 29 of the American Journal of Numismatics featuring articles on the silver coinage of Manbog, the Damaskos mint of Alexander the Great, numismatic material from late third-century contexts at Morgantina, the Antiochene coinage of Trajan Decius, Visigothic Tremisses from Theudis to Leovigild, Hedlinger's rouble, the Bahmani currency reform of the early fifteent century, and the general issue ten-cash coins of the Republic of China.

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