L’atelier monétaire d’Ostie (308/309-313 ap. J.-C.)

A Survey of Excavations and Studies on Ostia (2004–2014)

“…308/9–313, established by Maxentius and newly examined in two recent studies. One (Drost 2014) stresses the fact that this Ostian mint, founded for contingent reasons (the closure of that at Carthage after the revolt of Domitius Alexander), later increased in importance and — with that of Rome — remained the only mint active in Italy until its suppression in favour of the facility at Arles. In a slightly earlier article, Pesciarelli, among other things, interpreted the suppression of the Ostian mint by Constantine as a political ‘vendetta’ against a city that may have supported his adversary (Pesciarelli 2011).…”