Coin talk > Late Roman Bronze coins
Captives
seth:
This map would make better sense as for the sarmatians and Constantine's 323-334 campaigns north of the Danube:
Genio popvli romani:
--- Quote from: Victor on June 01, 2014, 05:13:08 PM ---
There may have been some sort of image circulated (perhaps even a design for the coin reverse was issued to the mints).
It is one of the general issues ("metallic" and "iconographic" courses) about the minting processus I am curious to know. Who decided, and what was the way until the strike itself?
The ALAMANNIA DEVICTA type issued at about the same time has an almost identical reverse to the SARMATIA type including the captives, which makes be think even more that these captives are not styled on any actual living people, but only portray an idea of "barbarianism"
May be we have to generalize by few iconographic categories, Western and Eastern and/or Northern and Southern barbarians
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