The Roman Monetary System
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 6/11/2015
EAN 9781107526563, ISBN10: 1107526566
Paperback, 316 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
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.
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.