Money and Government in the Roman Empire
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- Author: Richard Duncan-Jones, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: July 1998
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- isbn: 9780521648295
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This book discusses minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, the author uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. The resulting analyses use extensive coin material collected for the first time. Dr. Duncan-Jones builds up a picture of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation that adds substantially to our knowledge and that stands as the only study of its kind for this period.
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- Important contribution to the understanding of the economy of the Roman empire
- Paperback should be bought by amateur numismatists as well as by scholars
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"No one who wants to understand the economy and fiscal policies of Rome under the principate or many of the technical aspects of coin production and the use of coins as historical evidence can afford to ignore this impressive book." Classical World
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- Date Published: July 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521648295
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus. 108 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I. The Economics of Empire:
1. Surplus and deficit
2. Money, prices and inflation
3. The imperial budget
4. Tax and tax-cycles
Part II. The Coin-Evidence:
5. Coin-hoards and their origin
6. The implications of coin-hoards
Part III. Money and Money-Supply:
7. Coinage and currency: an overview
8. The chronology of mint-output
9. Reign-studies: the chronology and structure of coin-output
10. The size of die-populations
11. The size of coin-populations
12. Mobility and immobility of coin
13. Weight-loss and circulation-speed
14. Wastage and reminting of coin
15. Change and deterioration
16. Contrast and variation in the coinage
Appendices:
1. Payments of congiaria
2. The chronology of minting under Tiberius
3. Variations in land-tax in Egypt
4. Assessments of tax-revenue in the sources
5. Tax comparisons with Mughal India
6. Hoards below the sampling threshold
7. Rates of donative
8. Programs for finding negative binomial k and for estimating die-populations
9. Die-productivity in medieval evidence
10. Aureus and denarius hoards used in the main anlaysis
Bibliography
Index.
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