Women at the Periphery? Local Women on Roman Provincial Coinage

Instructor: Lucia Carbone

How relevant were benefactors and benefactresses to the production of civic coinage in the Roman Empire? In other words, did cities in the Roman Empire depend upon private funding to produce their coinage? After addressing the attestations of private financing of coinage in epigraphic, literary and numismatic sources, this lecture will focus on the presence of local women on the civic coinage issued in the Roman provinces.