Roman Provincial Coins (RPC), Volume 5 (Parts 2 & 3) now online.

[Anaximander]

RPC News! This is from RPC:

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RPC volumes V.2 and V.3 are now available online. They cover all Roman provincial coinage issues from Pertinax to the death of Macrinus (AD 193-218) in all the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. 
It includes over 11,000 type descriptions and over 45,000 coins from 317 cities. The geography extends from Bithynia to Egypt.
Volume V.2 will be edited by A. Hostein and J. Mairat, with M. Amandry, F. Delrieux. and P.-O. Hochard.
Volume V.3 will be edited by A. Burnett et al., with M. Amandry, L. Bricault, J. Mairat, S. Matthies, and D. Miebach.
Further additions and corrections will be incorporated into the printed volume. Please submit feedback through RPC online.

Please note that the European provinces will be covered in Volume V.1, which is not yet online. We kindly ask you to wait until its release before submitting feedback on the European part of Volume V.

Explore RPC V.2 using the interactive map at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/map?volume_id=9
Explore RPC V.3 using the interactive map at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/map?volume_id=10

J. Mairat, 20 Dec. 2024

 

Volume V of Roman Provincial Coinage covers Pertinax to Macrinus (193-218). This period includes:

• The Civil Wars: Emperors Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Claudius Albinus, and Septimius Severus.
• The Early Severan Dynasty: Emperors Septimius Severus, Caracalla, and Geta.
• The reign of Emperors Macrinus and Diadumenian. 

The two new volumes are up on the RPC website, but Part 1 (Europe) is not yet there, and the print edition is still a ways away. 

Here's the status of their planned publications:

 

Edited January 10 by Anaximander
Added the names of Emperors included in the period covered by RIC V.

[Anaximander]

Here is my Macrinus tetradrachm and its corresponding entry in RPC V.3

  

Edited January 10 by Anaximander
RPC is not in the PRC. RPC is not in the PRC. ....

[-monolith-]

2 hours ago, Anaximander said:

Here is my Macrinus tetradrachm and its corresponding entry in PRC V.3

  

I need to submit mine, but I'm not sure if they will accept it since it's an error coin.

 

[Anaximander]

@-monolith-: You should submit your coin to RPC (use the Feedback button). They seem quite accommodating.

Two or three days after my submission, and without notice, my Roman Provincial Coin now appears online in RPC. Not all the detail was included, notably the name of my collection (Anaximander) and date/location of the coin's purchase. But they used my photo (2MB) and posted it to the RPC website, increasing the population count from 22 to 23. 

Because the presentation is rather spartan, I photoshopped my own rendition of an RPC tag (starting with More>Show).

The meaning of 'Plate Coin' is lost here, though I really do feel a frisson of satisfaction at how this worked out.

[-monolith-]

3 hours ago, Anaximander said:

@-monolith-: You should submit your coin to RPC (use the Feedback button). They seem quite accommodating.

Two or three days after my submission, and without notice, my Roman Provincial Coin now appears online in RPC. Not all the detail was included, notably the name of my collection (Anaximander) and date/location of the coin's purchase. But they used my photo (2MB) and posted it to the RPC website, increasing the population count from 22 to 23. 

Because the presentation is rather spartan, I photoshopped my own rendition of an RPC tag (starting with More>Show).

The meaning of 'Plate Coin' is lost here, though I really do feel a frisson of satisfaction at how this worked out.

Most of my Roman Provincial Collection has been submitted and is posted. However, I have a large collection of mint error coins that I have submitted but they just don't seem to want to publish them. Which is ineffectual considering none of these errors have ever been published, or even recorded, and the whole purpose of the RPC Online database is to allow a greater avenue for sharing this information. I guess I will just have to "self" publish my collection at some point.

[DonnaML]

Thanks for posting about this, @Anaximander. I've looked up only one of my coins so far in the new volumes, a Septimius Severus tetradrachm from Tyre, and it turns out that my specimen, purchased at a Nomos Obolos auction a couple of years ago, is the third of the three that RPC illustrates. See https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/424950 , illustrating https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/81867, a/k/a Prieur 1533.

So there's no need for me to submit it!