MONETA
MONETA CAESARIS
the imperial mint in
Region III (Not. Cur.).
Its site on the via Labicana close to S. Clemente is indicated by the
discovery at this point in the sixteenth century of several inscriptions
which record dedications to Apollo (
CIL vi. 42), Fortuna (43), Hercules
(44), Victoria (791), Genius familiae monetalis (239), by the various
officials of the mint (cf. also
CIL vi. 298, 1145, 1146, 1647=x. 1710,
33726=xv. 7140; Hirschfeld, Verwaltungsbeamten, 181-189). These
dedications date from 115 A.D., but the mint was probably established
here considerably earlier, though not before the time of Vespasian, when
the domus aurea, which must have included this site, was abolished
(HJ 303;
LS iii. 152).
