
Additional resources: Elizabeth Marlowe, Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) Smarthistory images. The Substance of Coinage: The Role of Scientific Analysis in Ancient NumismaticsPortrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca bust), early 2nd century C.E., marble, 63 inches high (Capitoline Museum, Rome), part 2 of 2. Image: Comparsion (Left) Portrait of Vespasian Marble, Honorific, Rome Flavian Ca. The woman is draped over her upper torso, and her face is softly modelled.private portraiture, Otricoli, Republican, 75-50 BCE. This arrangement shows off her long slender neck, and was fashionable during the Flavian period (A.D. The woman wears a towering hairpiece, with seven rows of tight curls in front, and long braids that wind around the back of her head.

The Ancient Coinages of the Iberian Peninsula The Denarius Coinage of the Roman Republic Early Roman Coinage and Its Italian Context
All of the denominations of imperial coinage employed had already appeared in the past the elements most commonly used in coinage typology—imperial portraits for the obverse, a variety of designs for the reverse—were already familiar. Earliest Christian Symbols on Roman Coinsrichard abdyThe emperors of the Flavian dynasty had a considerable impact on imperial history. Marks of Value (Certain and Possible) on Late Roman Coins with Intrinsic Values (from Aurelian) The Coinage of the Later Roman Empire, 364–498 From Gordian III to the Gallic Empire (AD 238–274) Syria in the Roman Period, 64 BC–AD 260

