The long revolutionary age is one of Roman history's most richly documented periods – and most misrepresented. Seldom in history has the mentality of historians so diverged from the attitudes of contemporaries. This work privileges a class of neglected evidence which colourfully expresses the uncertainty, and the hopes, not of historians but of contemporaries: coinage. An international team of young scholars examine the ideals expressed, and the fears reflected, in the coins issued by warring chiefs during Rome's, and the provinces', long conflicts. There results a subtle and lively characterisation of individuals and ideas which even Augustan ideology could never efface.