THE ROMANS IN ASIA MINOR
Money, Power and Politics
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien - Coin Collection
extended until the middle of November 2006
"The Romans in Asia Minor" is a special exhibition hosted by the Coin Collection in Vienna that focusses on a little-known chapter in the economic and monetary history of the Imperium Romanum. The monetary reforms instigated by the first Roman emperor, Augustus (14 B.C. - 27 A.D.), created a coinage that was valid in all parts of the empire. The Eastern provinces, however, retained a special status: being distant from the central mint in Rome there were numerous smaller centres that issued coinage of base metals which was then put in circulation locally. Their designs followed the coinage issued in Rome only in a perfunctory way.
Press release
Information