Numismatica Antiqua 16
This monograph studies in detail the coinage from one of the leading mints in the province of Roman Africa and the last one to have produced local coins. Utica, an old Phoenician city, often a rival of Carthage, which was to succeed it as the seat of the Proconsul of Africa, issued 27 series of coins under Tiberius between 15/16 and 30 CE: asses, semisses and quadrantes fifirst, during the seventh acclamation of the adopted son of Augustus, then dupondii in the name of the proconsul C. Vibius Marsus, during the eighth acclamation. Their iconography like their denominations were directly inspired by the Roman model. Part One recalls the geographical, historical and political context in which the city developed. It then goes on to examine the minting characteristics of the Roman Municipium of Utica from a sample of more than 430 coins from public and private collections and commerce, comparing them as necessary with the issues of the other cities of the province, Carthage in particular. Its fifinal chapter tries to identify the place of this coinage in the monetary circulation of proconsular Africa and to determine the reasons for its existence. The catalogue of the 27 issues forms Part Two of the book. Following this, 56 plates illustrate all the samples for which photos are available, as well as numerous coins for comparison and die identities recorded between issues.
While pursuing a career as a diplomat, Patrick Villemur took an early interest in Roman provincial numismatics, in the beginning as a collector, while these series were still relatively neglected, and later as a researcher. He Is particularly devoted to the study of the local issues in the western provinces under the late Republic and later, under the Julio-Claudians emperors, with a preference for the ones of the Roman cities of Sicily and African provinces. He is the author of articles about the coinage of Tingi, Zilil, Tyndaris, of non-identified colonies but also for the dupondii of Nîmes known as the “boar's foot”. He is a full member of the Société française de Numismatique.
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