Description

A photographic gallery of thirty Roman coins from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sixty distinct faces span issues from about 96 BCE to 313-315 CE. Twenty-nine specimens appear as facing obverse and reverse pairs; the two faces of a gold aureus issued by Julius Caesar open and close the book. Short captions and a museum accession index identify the objects, while the photographs retain their surviving surfaces and collection marks. A visual introduction to Roman coin design, with dates and attributions tied to the exact museum records.