الآلهة الرومانية الممثلة على عملة العهد الإمبراطوري الأعلى و المحفوظة بالمتحف العمومي الوطني أحمد زبانة

Abstract EN

The currency، first appeared in Lydien civilization (2000 BC) to be transferred from then by the Greek civilization and then Roman civilization.

it replaced barter in the ancient world.

the currency was a purely economic means, and with its development and the multiplicity of its shapes and portables, it acquired other functions : political such as the system of government, social as marriage.

our study was based on the currency of supreme imperial era of Roman civilization and preserved in the museum of the Ahmed Zabana of Oran, during this period, which extends from 27 BC to 284 AD, the importance of the currency in currency in consolidating the concepts of power and stabilizing then among the people increased.

it officially became a propaganda tool because of its titles and abbreviations for the names of Roman emperors, as well as the devotional religious aspect.

through specimens dating back to the Upper imperial era, estimated at 1060 pieces preserved in the national museum Ahmed Zabana, of which 107 bear representations of the Roman gods, we find the Roman trinity, represented by the gods Jupiter, Gonon and Minerva, topping these representations, followed by the rest of the Roman gods, from the god Mars, the god of war, to the worship of the emperor, which was first known with emperor Augustus, the founder of the Roman empire in 27 BC.