Money and Government in the Roman Empire
- Author: Richard Duncan-Jones, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: July 1998
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521648295
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Rome's conquests gave her access to the accumulated metal resources of most of the known world. An abundant gold and silver coinage circulated within her empire as a result. But coinage changes later suggest difficulty in maintaining metal supplies. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, Dr Duncan-Jones uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. He constructs a new profile of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation, by analysing extensive coin evidence collected for the first time. His findings considerably advance our knowledge of crucial areas of the Roman economy.
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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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'Duncan-Jones has written an important and stimulating book, which seeks to use numismatic evidence to study minting policy, monetary organisation, and the monetary economy … No serious scholar will want to analyse coin hoards, or to consider monetary history, without looking to see what Duncan-Jones has done.' The Journal of Roman Studies
See more reviews'Duncan-Jones has written an important and chellenging book that deserves to be widely read.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'It is fair to say that this is the magnum opus we have been awaiting; and that it crystallizes the author's approach to numismatic evidence, for which we have had to be content with tantalizing hints in his prior work.' Revue Suisse de Numismatique
'This book will be an essential reference work for Roman historians and numismatics and will also be of interest to economic historians.' Coins and Antiques
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- Date Published: July 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521648295
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.445kg
- 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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