The Roman Monetary System

The Roman Monetary System
Title The Roman Monetary System PDF eBook
Author Constantina Katsari
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 315
Release 2011-02-24
Genre History
ISBN 1139496646

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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.

Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700

Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700
Title Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700 PDF eBook
Author Kenneth W. Harl
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 550
Release 1996-07-12
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 9780801852916

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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.

Debasement

Debasement
Title Debasement PDF eBook
Author Kevin Butcher
Publisher Oxbow Books
Pages 234
Release 2020-04-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1789254019

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The debasement of coinage, particularly of silver, was a common feature of pre-modern monetary systems. Most coinages were issued by state authorities and the condition of a coinage is often seen (rightly or wrongly) as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the state that produced it. While in some cases the motives behind the debasements or reductions in standards are clear, in many cases the intentions of the issuing authorities are uncertain. Various explanations have been advanced: fiscal motives (such as a desire to profit or a to cover a deficit caused by the failure to balance expenditure and revenues); monetary motives (such as changing demand for coined money or a desire to maintain monetary stability in the face of changing values of raw materials or labour costs); pressure from groups within society that would profit from debasement; misconduct at the mint; or the decline of existing monetary standards due to circulation and wear of the coinage in circulation. Certain explanations have tended to gain favour with monetary historians of specific periods, partly reflecting the compartmentalization of scholarship. Thus the study of Roman debasements emphasizes fiscal deficits, whereas medievalists are often more prepared to consider monetary factors as contributing to debasements. To some extent these different approaches are a reflection of discrepancies in the amount of documentary evidence available for the respective periods, but the divide also underlines fundamentally different approaches to the function of coinage: Romanists have preferred to see coins as a medium for state payments; whereas medievalists have often emphasized exchange as an important function of currency. The volume is inter-disciplinary in scope. Apart from bringing together monetary historians of different periods, it also contains contributions from archaeometallurgists who have experience with the chemical and physical composition of coins and technical aspects of production of base alloys

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage
Title The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage PDF eBook
Author William E. Metcalf
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 707
Release 2012
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 0199372187

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A broadly-illustrated overview of the contemporary state of Greco-Roman numismatic scholarship.

Roman Imperial Coinage. Volume X

Roman Imperial Coinage. Volume X
Title Roman Imperial Coinage. Volume X PDF eBook
Author John Kent
Publisher Spink Books
Pages 777
Release 2018-08-01
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 1912667371

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This tenth volume of Roman Imperial Coinage completed the first edition of the series founded by Mattingly and Sydenham in 1923. Its layout is based on the division between the eastern and western parts of the empire, and the reigns of successive emperors. A further section deals with imitative coinages struck by certain of the barbarian peoples. There are detailed accounts of the monetary system and mints, and of the coin-types and legends. The catalogue comprises some 1,800 entries, each individually numbered, and illustrated by 80 plates. (NP The coinage is discussed not only in its historical setting, but also in a comprehensive and documented conceptual context, making RIC X essential reading for students of the late Roman and Byzantine period, as well as for collectors. This seminal volume is reprinted by Spink in 2018 to make it available again to all those interested in this fascinating period of Roman Imperial coinage. (NP) Dr John Kent joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1953, and was Keeper from 1983 until his retirement in 1990. As well as being an editor of the Roman Imperial Coinage series , he is the author of Roman Imperial Coinage Volume VIII (1981).

Roman Republican Coinage

Roman Republican Coinage
Title Roman Republican Coinage PDF eBook
Author Michael Hewson Crawford
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 582
Release 1974
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 9780521074926

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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.

Coinage in Roman Egypt

Coinage in Roman Egypt
Title Coinage in Roman Egypt PDF eBook
Author Erik Christiansen
Publisher
Pages 212
Release 2004
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN

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In this volume, Erik Christiansen uses Alexandrian coin hoards to explore the use of money in Egypt from its conquest by Augustus in 30 BC to Diocletian's currency reform in AD 296. Although these finds, with their wide array of Graeco-Roman and Alexandrian reverses, have traditionally been classified as a part of Greek coinage, he demonstrates clearly that they belong to the Roman imperial coinage. The hoards also show that Roman Egypt enjoyed a widespread monetized economy, in addition to the credit system described in extant papyri. The relative abundance of such documents provides Christiansen with a good supplemental source of information for his conclusions. And since financial administration is known to have been quite uniform throughout the empire, this book provides a useful window on not only Rome's shifting economic fortunes but also monetary policy in other provinces, which did not leave behind the rich heritage of coins and documents that Egypt did.