Definition

• The name given to such coins as were issued by military commanders to pay their armies. Well known examples are the gold coins of Rome, struck by order of Sulla, Pompey, and Julius Caesar, and a rare piece issued by Flaminius in Greece, about the period of the Second Macedonian War, which bears his name and portrait.

  All of the military coinage was struck outside of Rome.

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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