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332: 79:, assisted by Edward Allen Sydenham. Their catalogue differed from its predecessor, produced by Henry Cohen in the 19th century. Cohen had classified the coins by emperor, and then alphabetically by the legend (text) on them. Mattingly broke down the classification further into which foundry, and in which series, each coin came from. Mattingly and Sydenham were joined by 318: 424:
Welcome to VirtualCohen.com, the online version of the legendary catalog of Roman coins by H. Cohen. The "Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire Romain", 120 years after its publication, is still regarded as an important and useful reference for the Roman Imperial coinage. This
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for volumes Va (1927) and Vb (1933). After 1930, the editorship of each of the final volumes was given to a specialist of the period. After Mattingly's death in 1964, Sutherland and
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For each coin listed, there is a description of both the obverse and reverse sides of the coin ("heads and tails"), and a notation depending on the rarity of known examples:
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Each emperor is given a detailed history of the coinage of his reign, with a classification of the type of money, and within each type a registration, from its inscription.
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in 491 AD. It is the result of many decades of work, from 1923 to 1994, and a successor to the previous 8-volume catalogue compiled by the numismatist
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In 1984, Sutherland published an expanded edition of the first volume of 1923, which was not as detailed as those that followed.
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Online database of Roman imperial coins, built on the numbering system created by the Roman Imperial Coinage series.
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Description historique des monnaies frappees sous l'empire romain communement appelees medailles imperiales: 2e ed
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Historical description of coins struck under the Roman Empire commonly called imperial medals: 2nd ed.
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The production of a chronological catalogue of Roman Imperial coinage was started in 1923 by
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This article is about a learned numismatic catalogue. For a history of Roman coinage, see
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volume 10 : The Divided Empire, 395–491, by J. P. C. Kent, London, 1994
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In the endpapers of each volume is a table of the coins that have reproductions.
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identification of coinage struck by authorisation of the Roman emperors.
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Cohen, Henry; Gaidoschik, R; Feuardent, Gaston L; Probszt, G (1955) .
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in producing volumes IVb (1938) and IVc (1949), and by
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site contains over 4,000 pages of the original book...
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Index

Roman currency § Empire
Roman Imperial currency
Battle of Actium
Late Antiquity
Henry Cohen
numismatic
Harold Mattingly
numismatist
British Museum
C. H. V. Sutherland
Percy H. Webb
R. A. G. Carson
Augustus
Vitellius
Vespasian
Hadrian
Harold Mattingly
Edward Allen Sydenham
Antoninus Pius
Commodus
Pertinax
Geta VII
Caracalla
Macrinus
Pupienus
Gordian III
Uranius Antoninus
Valerian
Florian
Marcus Aurelius Probus

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