1. Ancient Coin Project

2. Money Money=pecunia in Latin pecus, pecoris, n.
Herd, cattle, beast=pecus or pecoris in Latin

3. Animals and Products as Forms of Money
Advantages?
Disadvantages?

4. The Making of a Coin: ---authority to issue and guarantee coin’s worth
---possession of metal
---ability to refine metal to desired purity
---tools/techniques to fabricate coin from
metal

5. Possession of Metal

6. A Little Coining History
Juno Moneta
Roman goddess of
the mint
---a temple to
Juno Moneta was
dedicated on the citadel
of Rome In 344 B.C.
---an adjoining building
contained the mint of
Roman state.

7. The Making of a Coin:
Mints in the Roman Empire

8. The Minting of Roman Coins
---casting in a mold
---striking

9. Cast Bronze Coinage: 5th c.- mid 2nd c. BCE
1. Aes rude, central Italy, 3rd c.
2. AE dolphin money, Olbia, 5-4th c.
3. Aes grave, wheel coins
4. Tooth-shaped, Akragas, Sicily, 5th c.
5. Arrow or leaf ,6th-5th c.

10. Making a Roman Coin ancient coin mold
funnel-shaped bronze for pouring liquid metal into cast

11. The Making of a Coin: Tools/techniques to fabricate coin from metal
---flan
---dies (obverse & reverse)
---tongs
---striking process
---coin rotation
Medieval Striking Rig
(but set up is similar to a
Roman rig)

12. Display,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.

13. Much Slave Labor Required
Celatores (signatores) = die engravers cut master die from which working dies were made; dies lasted for 10,000 – 50,000 strikes
Suppostores = “placers”
Malleatores = “strikers”

14. Dies Byzantine die
Islamic die
Byzantine
coin

15. Forgers’ Dies
1-Sestertius
2-Mark Antony
3-Republican

16. How It’s Made
To give you an idea on how ancient coins were made.

17. Coin Denominations
Roman denominations
during the Republic

18. What the information stood for

19. The Kentucky Quarter What similarities and differences
do you see with ancient coins?

20. COUNTERFEITING Fouree: the coating of a copper coin with
a silver wash.
Serrated Edges: perhaps
used to prove coin was not
a fouree and edges not shaved

21. Now….Create your own coin
STEP 1: roughly design the two possible sides of your coin (min. 4 diff. designs.) and collect info about your coin and the designs.
STEP 2: sketch the two sides of your coin and write a description about it.
STEP 3: finalize your coins design and edit your description.
STEP 4: create a colorful display of your coin with a typed description.
STEP 5: create physical version of your coin.

22. Just to give you an idea Samples of Roman Coins
This video could give you a good idea of what you want to put on your coin.
Convert to ancient Roman year system.
Convert to Roman numerals