Midwest Book Review
Roman Imperial Coins features Augustus to Hadrian with Antonine selections (31 BC to AD 180). The coins are listed in accordance with Crawford's standard catalog, "Roman Republican Coinage", and includes 18 specimens not found in the standard catalogs. The erudite commentary relates the coins to the political and numismatic policies of Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius. There is a non-technical introduction to the history of coinage, suitable for the non-specialist general reader as well as the experienced coin collector ready to branch out into this specialized area of numismatics. Roman Imperial Coins also provides indexes of names, coin legends, and coin types. There are 42 plates illustrating both sides of 1053 coins. No academic or personal coin book reference collection can be considered complete without Kevin Herbert's Roman Imperial Coins.
Antony A. Barret, University of British Columbia. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97/97-5-3.
"One might begin by noting some very happy features. The decision to provide a catalogue of the complete holdings . . . was a sound one, and even more laudable was the decision to provide an illustration, on good-quality plates, of every piece catalogued. . . . The editor must be applauded also for his broad-mindedness. He has included provincial issues along with the imperials, reflecting the growing recognition of the interest and importance of the former, which until recently have tended to be neglected as merely local emissions. He has also included and illustrated a "Paduan" sestertius (Nero 124, reverse of Ostia Harbour) from the famous class of Renaissance forgeries, clearly identified as such. This is not, of course, a Roman coin and its inclusion may annoy the purists but is fully justified in a catalogue intended in part for students, who should be made familiar with these dangerous replicas."
