The Roman Monetary System
The Roman Monetary System
The Roman monetary system was highly complex. It involved official Roman coins in both silver and bronze, which some provinces produced while others imported them from mints in Rome and elsewhere, as well as, in the East, a range of civic coinages. This is a comprehensive study of the workings of the system in the Eastern provinces from the Augustan period to the third century AD, when the Roman Empire suffered a monetary and economic crisis. The Eastern provinces exemplify the full complexity of the system, but comparisons are made with evidence from the Western provinces as well as with appropriate case studies from other historical times and places. The book will be essential for all Roman historians and numismatists and of interest to a broader range of historians of economics and finance.
- Argues for a new understanding of the Roman monetary system
- Avoids the substantivist as well as the modernist approach, opening the debate up to new possibilities
- Presents the material in a readable fashion, avoiding complex statistical analysis
Product details
June 2015Paperback
9781107526563
316 pages
228 × 152 × 16 mm
0.48kg
43 tables
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Table of Contents
- Framing the Roman monetary system: an introduction
- 1. Statistics and numismatics
- 2. Planning the financial policy of the Roman state
- 3. Trimetallism and bimetallic laws
- 4. The application of the quantity theory of money on third-century economics
- 5. Roman monetary integration
- 6. Micro-economies
- 7. Metallism vs chartalism
- Appendix 1. The inscription of Mylasa
- Appendix 2. Excavation finds, coin hoards and museums bibliography.
