Interactive Coin Resources
Below are a series of scanned and annotated coins connected to the late Republic and the the rule of Augustus. Clicking on the annotations will reveal information about the coins. You can find more coins (including an Athenian tetradrachm) on our . If you are a teacher and would like the raw scanned files to use for developing teaching resources (e.g. 3D prints of the coins) with your students do just email Clare at C.Rowan@warwick.ac.uk. Some inspiration for classroom activities related to these resources can be found on this 'Views from the Classroom' blog! We would like to thank the for the use of their coin collection to create these scans.
Coin manufacture and denominations
You will see that when you turn the coins displayed here the images do not perfectly align. This is because coinage in the ancient world was made by hand, and so the two stamps or 'dies' did not always align perfectly. Many of the coins shown are silver denarii, but there are also some bronze coins. The table of denominations may be of use in looking at the coins presented.
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How coins were struck |
Denominations in the Roman denarius system after c. 141/140 BC. |
The late Republic
The Augustan Principate
Later representations of Augustus
A task to set students
Having looked at some of the annotations of the models above, students might be willing to create their own annotations! Below are a coin and a token that students might like to annotate using powerpoint, or by hand if they are printed out. The images come directly from our Youtube videos on the imperial image and students will be able to gather the relevant information from them.
Coins and tokens from the video ''
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Coins and tokens from the video ''
A provincial coin showing the imperial family |
