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"This book catalogues the 3,726 coins of the Richard B. Witschonke collection of coinage in the early Roman provinces, now in the collection of the American Numismatic Society. Most of these coins date between the second and the first half of the first century BC, and thus this catalogue serves as an important reference for coins of the Roman provinces that fall outside of the scope of the Roman Provincial Coinage catalogues. Critical historical introductions precede each of the 36 sections of the catalogue. Encompassing the entirety of the Mediterranean basin, they highlight how pre-existing local monetary systems interacted and partially converged with the Roman monetary system in these regions"--