Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in Austria The Romans in Asia Minor
The Romans in Asia Minor AUSTRIA VIENNA • Kunsthistorisches Museum • Ongoing
The Romans in Asia Minor is a special exhibition hosted by the Coin Collection in Vienna that focuses on a little-known chapter in the economic and monetary history of the Imperium Romanum. The monetary reforms instigated by the first Roman emperor, Augustus (14 B.C. - 27 A.D.), created a coinage that was valid in all parts of the empire. The Eastern provinces, however, retained a special status: being distant from the central mint in Rome there were numerous smaller centres that issued coinage of base metals which was then put in circulation locally. Their designs followed the coinage issued in Rome only in a perfunctory way.
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