Coinage and Money Under the Roman Republic
Author: Michael Hewson Crawford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780520055063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Hewson Crawford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780520055063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David B. Hollander
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 904741912X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Michael Hewson Crawford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780521074926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive study in over 100 years, cataloging the issues of each coiner in the period 280-31 BC and describing and dating them as accurately as the evidence permits.
Author: Kenneth W. Harl
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1996-07-12
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780801852916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1107013739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A richly-illustrated introduction to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman republic.
Author: Andrew Burnett
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1910589942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13:
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