Coining for a faction: competing depictions of foreign peoples and places on roman coinage in civil war Hispania (RRC 468, RRC 469, RRC 470)

  • This article presents a case study of three different coin series (RRC 468-RRC 470) minted near contemporaneously in Hispania during the latter stages of the civil war, which present strikingly different representations of foreign peoples and places. While Caesar’s coin series (RRC 468) displays an image of submissive Gallic captives and a military trophy, Cnaeus Pompey Jr’s two series (RRC 469=470) feature personifications of the region and local cities and depicts them working together with their Pompeian counterpart in the pursuit of victory in the area. The article incorporates hoard evidence to further develop our understanding of how a contemporary viewer might have experienced these contrasting images of foreign peoples and places. It demonstrates which would have been the more common image in circulation and provides evidence for potential audience targeting with the Pompeian coin series. In light of recent scrutiny of Pompeian patronage networks in Spain, this hoard evidence for potential audience targeting allows a new interpretation of the Pompeian coin series as targeting a potentially wavering host community to be put forward.

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Author:Ellen MacDougall
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-554224
DOI:https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v7i2.528
ISSN:2360-266X
Parent Title (English):Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology
Publisher:Editura Mega
Place of publication:Cluj-Napoca
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2020
Year of first Publication:2020
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/09/03
Tag:Republican coinage; audience targeting;; coin hoards; images of foreign peoples and places; late Republican civil wars
Volume:7
Issue:2
Page Number:14
First Page:80
Last Page:93
HeBIS-PPN:470992409
Institutes:Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Geschichtswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht