A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients ...

106 PERIOD VII.
In Italy, the revolt of the confederate Italian peoples
against Kome, B.C. 90-89, gave rise to the issue of money
at their capital Corfinium, the name of which they changed
to Italia. In Spain, the Komans, after having for the
.greater part of a century permitted the various tribes of
the Citerior Province to strike coins with native Iberian
legends, put an end in B.C. 133 to these issues, but during
the revolt of Sertorius B.C. 80-73 there appears to have
been a temporary renewal of bronze money with bilingual
(Iberian and Latin) inscriptions. In Gaul and Britain
gold money was plentifully coined until each of these
countries was in turn subdued by Rome.
The only other non-Roman coins were those of the
African kingdoms, Numidia and Mauretania.
The coinage at Rome itself, and of Roman generals
during their various campaigns, calls for few remarks ;
its chief value is historical and chronological.
In point of style the coins of the whole of this century
exhibit a marked decline. Those struck in Asia maintain
their superiority, and are not without some artistic merit,
especially in portraiture ; those of Mithradates the Great,
of Cleopatra, and of Marcus Antonius, being among the
most remarkable.