Coins of the Roman Revolution 49 BC - AD 14

New articles by specialists on the coinage of the years of chaos and insecurity following Julius Caesar's death, using coins of rival warlords to understand the period from contemporary evidence.

The long revolutionary age is one of Roman history's most richly documented periods – and most misrepresented. Seldom in history has the mentality of historians so diverged from the attitudes of contemporaries. This work privileges a class of neglected evidence which colourfully expresses the uncertainty, and the hopes, not of historians but of contemporaries: coinage. An international team of young scholars examine the ideals expressed, and the fears reflected, in the coins issued by warring chiefs during Rome's, and the provinces', long conflicts. There results a subtle and lively characterisation of individuals and ideas which even Augustan ideology could never efface.