This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...star Sirmi(i) sig(naverunt) palm-branch; (4) DDD NNN (i.e. Domini nostri) with three busts; (5) Sirm(ium), with personification of Sirmium seated, holding palm-branch; above star or Christian monogram. The date of these bars can be fixed to some time between 367 and 383 A D. Flavianus is evidently the procurator monetae at Sirmium; Quirillus and Dionisus and Lucianus probably minor officials. The procurator sacrae monetae Urbis until Constantino's time was under the rationalis; afterwards he was placed under the disposition of the comes sacrarum largitionum. We possess the tedious formula qua moneta committitur, i.e. the formula of institution of these procurators. 7. Monetary Officials of Roman Colonies. In the Roman colonies the formula corresponding to the Roman S. C. is D. D. or EX D. D. (ex decurionum decreto)5. But, just as at Rome in Republican times it was never considered necessary, save in the case of special issues, to mention the fact that the issue was authorized by a senatus consultum, so in the colonies the letters D. D. or EX D. D. are by no means essential. Much more frequent is the appearance of the titles of the monetary magistrates. The coinage was in the hands of the duumvirs (originallypraetores duumviri, who are therefore named sometimes singly, sometimes both together 6. The duumviri 1 See especially C. I. L. iii. Suppt. 8080; Mommsen.Z./. N.xvi. pp. 351 ff.; Arch. Ep. llitth. aus Oest. vol. xii. The article of H. Willers (Num. Zt. xxx. 3n), too recently published for consideration here, should be consulted. 3 'O$pvov, refined gold. AuyfMi, sample or standard. 1 Cassiodorus, Var. vii. 32, quoted by Lenormant, iii. p. 3ia. 5 Lenormant, iii. pp. 315 ff. 6 In the old colony of Carthage (that founded by Julius Caesar) the ol...