Signatores in der römischen Münzstätte: CIL VI 44 und die numismatische Evidenz

Abstract

The most important documentary sources of Roman Antiquity on mintage are the inscription CIL VI 44 of the Caelius Mons, set in 115 AD by three groups of workers, active in the mint, and their supervisor, as well as two corresponding representations on numismatic objects: one on an unique tessera preserved at the Coin Collection of Vienna and the other on a type of contorniate of late Antiquity. This paper offers an in-depth study and a new interpretation of these evidences. The results are that the three workers depicted on the tessera and on the contorniate by the coinage have to be regarded as suppostor, malliator, and, in opposition to the communis opinio, as signator. The translation of the termsignator with «Engraver» is a misnomer.