Some Hitherto Unidentified Roman Provincial Issues Among the Coin Finds of Nicopolis

Some bronze coins found in the excavations of Nicopolis in Epirus belong to Roman provincial issues unidentified in the main numismatic collections. They were issued by Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius but do not give the city name, so one is obliged to base the mint attribution mainly on die analogies or identities. Nevertheless, since Roman provincial coins usually hada restricted circulation area, they may well have been issued by Nicopolis or by another Epirote mint. This article compares the new excavation evidence with the collections coins to try to determine whether or not four hitherto unidentified Roman provincial issues can be attributed to Nicopolis.