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Author: David B. Hollander Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 904741912X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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Roman monetary history has tended to focus on the study of Roman coinage but other assets regularly functioned as, or in place of, money. This book places coinage in its broader monetary context by also examining the role of bullion, financial instruments, and commodities such as grain and wine in making payments, facilitating exchange, measuring value and storing wealth. The use of such assets reduced the demand for coinage in some sectors of the economy and is a crucial factor in determining the impact of the large increase in the coin supply during the last century of the Republic. Money demand theory suggests that increased coin production led to further monetization, not per capita economic growth.
Author: Clare Rowan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107037484 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 255
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A richly illustrated introduction to the contribution of Roman and provincial coinage to the history of this period, aimed at undergraduates.
Author: Andrew Burnett Publisher: Classical Press of Wales ISBN: 1910589942 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 257
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Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and Cicero (in 44 and 43 BC) hardly one word has been reliably transmitted to us from even the two most powerful opponents of Octavian: Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius - except through coinage and the occasional inscription. The coins are an antidote to a widespread fault in modern approaches: the idea, from hindsight, that the Roman Republic was doomed, that the rise of Octavian-Augustus to monarchy was inevitable, and that contemporaries might have sensed as much. Ancient works in other genres skilfully encouraged such hindsight. Augustus in the Res Gestae, and Virgil in Georgics and Aeneid, sought to flatten the history of the period, and largely to efface Octavian's defeated rivals. But the latter's coins in precious metal were not easily recovered and suppressed by Authority. They remain for scholars to revalue. In our own age, when public untruthfulness about history is increasingly accepted - or challenged, we may value anew the discipline of searching for other, ancient, voices which ruling discourse has not quite managed to silence. In this book eleven new essays explore the coinage of Rome's competing dynasts. Julius Caesar's coins, and those of his `son' Octavian-Augustus, are studied. But similar and respectful attention is given to the issues of their opponents: Cato the Younger and Q. Metellus Scipio, Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius, Q. Cornificius and others. A shared aim is to understand mentalities, the forecasts current, in an age of rare insecurity as the superpower of the Mediterranean faced, and slowly recovered from, division and ruin.
Author: Walter Scheidel Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521780535 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 17
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In this, the first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. They reflect a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and develop new methods for measuring economic development, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately.
Author: Dumbarton Oaks Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks ISBN: 9780884021933 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 532
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This is the first fully illustrated catalogue of a major collection of late Roman and early Byzantine imperial coins. It follows the general layout of the Byzantine volumes in the Dumbarton Oaks series, with a substantial introduction dealing with the history of the coinage, including iconography, mints, and monetary system. In this volume, however, all the coins are illustrated in the plates.
Author: Kenneth W. Harl Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801852916 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 550
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In Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700, noted classicist and numismatist Kenneth W. Harl brings together these two fields in the first comprehensive history of how Roman coins were minted and used.
Author: Liv Mariah Yarrow
Author: Liv Mariah Yarrow
Author: William E. Metcalf
Author: David B. Hollander
Author: Clare Rowan
Author: Andrew M. Burnett
Author: Andrew Burnett
Author: Michael Hewson Crawford
Author: Walter Scheidel
Author: Dumbarton Oaks
Author: Kenneth W. Harl