Abstract
Eras and Coinage (44 BC-AD 69) After the all but simultaneous publication of Roman Provincial Coinage , I, and W. Leschhorn’s comprehensive book Antike Ären (1992/1993), this study investigates the chronological references on oriental coins from the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius. In anciens times indeed the date could be given either by yearly magistrale offices or by regnal cycles or — here we are — from terminus which created eras in a linear and indefinite manner. Among dynastic eras we tentatively emphasized the oldest one, that is to say, the Seleucid era, initiated in 312 BC ; provincial eras were in use as well in Asia (first in 133 BC, then under Sylla), as in Syria (longliving Pompeian campaigns) ; at last, Victory eras were computed after the decisive Pharsalus and Actium battles. Nowadays numismatic and epigraphic data don’t always agree with each other, but we still need to complete systematically the documentation.
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