Recherches numismatiques sur l'empereur Pertinax

Roman Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax ruled for three months at the start of 193 AD, after the murder of Commodus, Marcus Aurelius’ son. Nevertheless, this short period allowed imperial and local authorities to strike an important amount of coins, in four monetary mints: Rome, Alexandria, Tomis, and Prusa near Olympus.

In this book, you will find the complete corpus of these coinages, based on a comparative analysis of more than 2 000 coins, classified by obverse and reverse dies, as well as a detailed study on each mint under Pertinax’s rule. This book is thus for historians, researchers, and students, who will find within these pages a summary of Pertinax’s life, with a key point on his rule, but most of all a synthesis based on yet unpublished research. Political reflections which lead to the choices of monetary types are analysed and explained. For the first time, the entire coinage of an Emperor, including Roman and provincial strikes, is gathered in only one book and supplies a complete and innovative working tool.