Roman over Roman: revaluation overstrikes during the Second Punic War

• Autores: Andrew McCabe, Jordan Montgomery
• Localización: Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, ISSN 0774-5885, Nº. 166, 2020
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Past studies on Roman overstrikes have focused on the restriking of Roman over foreign coins. Less attention has been paid to Roman over Roman overstrikes, and where discussed, the focus has been on using overstrikes to indicate a succession of weight standards. A 2018 companion paper addressed methodological issues in studying overstrikes and reviewed overstrikes of the second and first centuries BCE. This paper continues the investigation, focusing on the Second Punic War. We Find that previously assumed successive weight standards, indicated by overstriking, are instead accidental by-products of mint management decisions aimed at producing a certain denomination mix using whatever flans were available, whether newly made blanks or existing coins as undertypes. Weights of individual bronze coins during the Second Punic War were not important. Prior numismatic works founded on the narrative of a sequence of standards – triental, quadrantal, sextantal and uncial – should be reconsidered in the light of this new overstrike evidence