. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. "The life of iIk- Empire/' writes Maiiingly, " is, in many ways, so like our own that wc can read of ii without often feelins; shoek or ; "" The Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, a lars;e pulili- cation of which six \olumes have been issued since 1923, and 'The Roman Imperial Coinage, a coniprehensi\c work still in process of [)ul)licalion, which Maitini;i\-, in collaboration with Sydeniiam, besjan to publisii in the same year, constitute basic references for the hu- perial series. Not to l)e
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. "The life of iIk- Empire/' writes Maiiingly, " is, in many ways, so like our own that wc can read of ii without often feelins; shoek or ; "" The Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, a lars;e pulili- cation of which six \olumes have been issued since 1923, and 'The Roman Imperial Coinage, a coniprehensi\c work still in process of [)ul)licalion, which Maitini;i\-, in collaboration with Sydeniiam, besjan to publisii in the same year, constitute basic references for the hu- perial series. Not to l)e o\erlooked also are Mattint;- ly"s comprehensi\e studies, his earlier Roman Coins from the Earliest Times to the Fall oj the Western Empire (1928) and his more recent work Roman Imperial Civilization (1957).. Fig. 41.—II.\ROLu (b. 1884), famous British scholar (photo from Essays in Roman Coinage). The two catalouts with their hi>;h scholarly stand- ards—rellectcd in the chrcjuoloyical arran<;;eiuent of the coin material, in detailed descriptions, in profuse historical notes, and especially in elaborate studies of the respective coinages which precede every volume— should have supplanted Cohen's handbook on im- perial coins with the general public, as it has with scholars, but this has not been the An article entitled "The Date of the Roman Denarius and Other Landmarks in Eariv Roman 13" Roman Imptrial CiiHizalion, pp. 2-3. For Mattingly's piil)- lications, .sec Copingkr, Bihtiagraphy (1956). Coinage," which Mattingly and E. S. G. published in 1933 in the Proceedings oj the British Academy, brought on one of the liveliest disputes in numismatics. The British .scholars, using consider- able material evidence, proposed to move the date of the beginning of the Roman Republican denarius from 269 to 187 This thesis, or as Rudi Thomsen called it, "the Mattingly re\'olution," found ready support in England
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