53 Small Change for the Poor: 25 BCE to 200 CE Mike Maier, July 2017 The Small Change for the Poor (SCP) project catalogues a collection of several hundred generally inexpensive coins acquired in trade from 1979 to 2015: mostly copper or one of its alloys, a large majority struck rather than cast, and almost all produced al marco. My focus is attribution of denomination, to provide some sense of purchasing power or economic function. The catalogue is arranged by quarter century during which the type was first produced, within which coins are generally sorted geographically east to west. The format is a color scan of the coin, a description that is a nod to a standard of SNG-like brevity, and a short essay with details about the type and commentary on the attributions, plus references. Over the course of the 225 years that had begun with the likes of Wang Mang and Caesar Augustus in power, copper-based monetary denomination systems expanded in influence throughout the lands from China to Spain and Morocco, even as the details were changing at least outwardly. Part 3 of the SCP project includes coins of Han and Xin China; Samarkand in Uzbekistan; post-Maurya states and empires in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; two Arsakid vassal kingdoms in Iran; Nabataea, centered in Jordan, ƌuled ďLJ aŶ uŶƌulLJ FƌieŶd of ‘oŵe; and Jewish rebels against the Roman Empire in Israel. Also included are coins of the Roman Principate: provincial and civic issues from Egypt, Israel, perhaps West Bank, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece; vassal kings in Israel and Turkey; a legionary countermark from Bulgaria or Germany, and imperial strikes from Italy. Revisions to the first two parts of the SCP catalogue Maier 2016A, Page 8, Coin 31, Tauromenion Apollo and Tripod is best attributed as a hemilitron or semis struck ca. 200-150 BCE, during Roman rule; earlier sub-types, distinguished by the style of inscription, would seem to have been struck ca. 345-338 and 265-263 BCE, denominated as hemilitron. See Campana, A. (2002) “iĐilia: TauƌoŵeŶioŶ ;Đa. ϯϱϳ-ϭϱϬ a.C., Panorama Numismatico (3) 166-168: 97-132. Maier 2016B, Page 9, Coin 32, Kentoripai Apollo and Lyre has been attributed as struck ca. 211-200 BCE, during Roman rule, rather than last half of Fourth Century BCE. See Campana, A. (1999) “iĐilia: Kentoripa (ca. 357-43 a.C., Panorama Numismatico (2) 127: 289-304. Revisions to Coins 31 and 32 also apply to a derivative of the SCP catalogue, Maier 2014. In Small Change of the Indic Lands: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan from 400 BCE to 200 CE (2017), Iǀe ŵade extensive revisions for Maier 2016A #9, 10, 33, 34, and 52-55; and Maier 2016B #61- 68, 79-82, 93, 94, 110-112, and 119-122. In addition, that paper presented draft material for coins numbered 128-129, 135-137, 142-143, 148-150B, 156-160, 165-166, 170-171, 175-176, and 182 herein. In this paper, however, I have revised substantively descriptions for the Kushana coins and added more on the beginnings of post-Kushana coinage.