Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) Vol. I-X (Complete)

ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE

Roman Imperial Coinage, abbreviated RIC, is a British catalogue of Roman Imperial currency, from the time of the Battle of Actium (31 BC)
to the Late Antiquity in 491 AD. It is the result of several decades of work, from 1923 to 1994, and a successor to the previous
8-volume catalogue compiled by the numismatist Henry Cohen in the 19th Century. It is the standard work for numismatic identification
of coinage struck by authorisation of Roman emperors.

CONTENTS
The RIC comprises 13 volumes:

volume 1 : Augustus–Vitellius (31 BC–69 AD), by C. H. V. Sutherland, London, 1923 (revised 1984)
volume 2 : Vespasian–Hadrian (69–138), by Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham, London, 1926
volume 3 : Antoninus Pius–Commodus (138–192), by H. Mattingly, E.A. Sydenham, London, 1930
volume 4a : Pertinax–Geta VII and Caracalla (193–217), by H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham, London, 1936
volume 4b : Macrinus–Pupienus (217–238), by H. Mattingly, E.A. Sydenham, C. H. V. Sutherland London, 1930
volume 4c : Gordian III–Uranius Antoninus (238–253), by H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham, C.H.V. Sutherland, London, 1949
volume 5a : Valerian–Florian (253–276), by Percy H. Webb, London, 1927
volume 5b : Marcus Aurelius Probus–Maximian (276–310), by Percy H. Webb, London, 1933
volume 6 : The Diocletian Reform–Maximinus II (294–313), by C. H. V. Sutherland, London, 1967
volume 7 : Constantine I–Licinius (313–337), by P. M. Bruun, 1966
volume 8 : The Family of Constantine I (337–364), by J. P. C. Kent, London, 1981
volume 9 : Valentinian I–Theodosius I (364–395)
volume 10 : The Divided Empire, 395–491, by J. P. C. Kent, London, 1994
Western Roman Empire : Flavius Honorius–Romulus Augustus (395-476)
Eastern Roman Empire : Flavius Arcadius–Zeno (395-491)

COLLECTION DETAILS
The production of a chronological catalogue of Roman Imperial coinage was started in 1923 by Harold Mattingly, a numismatist at the
British Museum, assisted by Edward Allen Sydenham. Their catalogue differed from its predecessor, produced by Henry Cohen in the 19th
Century. Although Cohen had classified the coins by emperor, and then alphabetically by the legend (text) on them. Mattingly broke down
the classification further into which foundry, and in which series, each coin came from. Mattingly and Sydenham were joined by
C. H. V. Sutherland in producing volumes IVb (1938) and IVc (1949), and by Percy H. Webb for volumes Va (1927) and Vb (1933). After
1930, the editorship of each of the final volumes was given to a specialist of the period. After Mattingly's death in 1964, Sutherland
and R. A. G. Carson jointly took over editorship of the work.
In 1984, Sutherland published an expanded edition of the first volume of 1923, which was not as detailed as those that followed.


CLASSIFICATION
C : common
R1 : rare, only twenty or so known
R2 : between five and fifteen known
R3 : four or five known
R4 : two or three known
R5 : only one known, unique

Each emperor is given a detailed history of the coinage of his reign, with a classification of the type of money, and within each type
a registration, from its inscription.

For each coin listed, there is a description of both the obverse and reverse sides of the coin ("heads and tails"), and a notation
depending on the rarity of known examples:

In the endpapers of each volume is a table of the coins that have reproductions.