This Reference screen is opening screen of the Moneta Reference Edition.
You can view over 435 single-spaced pages of reference material on
denominations, imperial mints, and rulers.  It is the most information on
Roman coinage in a single source.


The following screen is the Moneta Reference Edition Lookup screen.  Searches
of Moneta's database can be made for obverse legends, reverse legends, mint
marks, and provincial cities.  The data can be returned to this screen where the
date of the coin is usually established by a combination of the legends and
mint mark.  Once the information on a given coin is established, the "Clear
Results" button is clicked to reset all the fields for a new coin.  This example
shows the results of search for a coin from an Imperial mint.



The following screen shows a similar result, only for a Greek provincial coin.



The following screen is the obverse legend screen which can return the data
to the Lookups screen.  This nearly always establishes the ruler.  A similar screen
searches for the reverse legend.



The following screen is one of Moneta's most powerful, the mint mark search screen.
Mint marks often considerably narrow the dating of a coin.




The following screen is the city search screen.  Usually the reverse legend screen
will establish the city or colony if the coin is a provincial, but sometimes a search
of the city identifiers will help.