Doctrina Numorum Veterum, pars prima, vol. 7

Volume VII continues the imperial sequence from Antoninus Pius to Diocletian. Researchers working on Roman provincial coinage can use it to check the historical and titulary framework within which Greek civic issues were classified, and to understand the imperial identifications assumed by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century provincial catalogues. The eight-volume Doctrina was foundational because it replaced much cabinet-by-cabinet description with an ordered system based on geography, minting authority, and historical sequence. It remains useful for tracing citation histories, reconstructing eighteenth-century scholarly arguments, and locating references to collections or coins no longer readily identifiable.

Read the Latin terminology carefully and distinguish the Greek section (vols. I–IV) from the Roman section (vols. V–VIII). Many dates, rulers, mints, readings, and authenticity judgments have been revised, so use the work primarily with modern corpora and current collection records.