This book discusses minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, the author uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. The resulting analyses use extensive coin material collected for the first time. Dr. Duncan-Jones builds up a picture of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation that adds substantially to our knowledge and that stands as the only study of its kind for this period.
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"No one who wants to understand the economy and fiscal policies of Rome under the principate or many of the technical aspects of coin production and the use of coins as historical evidence can afford to ignore this impressive book." Classical World
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This book discusses minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, Dr Duncan-Jones uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate and builds up a picture of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation which adds substantially to our knowledge.
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When chance winds drove a Roman tax-collector from the Red Sea to Ceylon, the island's king was said to be much impressed by the consistent weight of the silver coins that he brought with him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reka Devnia, Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus Pius, Severus Alexander, Date Figure, Septimius Severus, British Museum, Little Brickhill, Julia Domna, West Continent, Lucius Verus, Pliny Pan, Beck Row, North Africa, Aelius Caesar, Drzewicz Nowy, Tell Kalak, Bodei Giglioni, Gresham's Law, Reign Median, Roman Empire, Little Poland, Upper Egypt, American Numismatic Society, Bodei Gigliom New!
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When chance winds drove a Roman tax-collector from the Red Sea to Ceylon, the island's king was said to be much impressed by the consistent weight of the silver coins that he brought with him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reka Devnia, Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus Pius, Severus Alexander, Date Figure, Septimius Severus, British Museum, Little Brickhill, Julia Domna, West Continent, Lucius Verus, Pliny Pan, Beck Row, North Africa, Aelius Caesar, Drzewicz Nowy, Tell Kalak, Bodei Giglioni, Gresham's Law, Reign Median, Roman Empire, Little Poland, Upper Egypt, American Numismatic Society, Bodei Gigliom New!
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- Septimius Severus (Roman Imperial Biographies) by Anthony R Birley on page 34, and Back Matter
- Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae (5 Volume Set) by Hermann Dessau in Front Matter
- The Fasti of Roman Britain by Anthony Birley in Back Matter
- China and the Roman Orient by Friedrich Hirth in Back Matter
- Divus Julius by Weinstock in Back Matter
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- The Ancient Economy by Walter Scheidel on page 194, page 259, and Back Matter
- The Ancient Economy by Walter Scheidel on page 194, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) by Gregory S. Aldrete in Back Matter
- A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) by Sevket Pamuk on page 2
- The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180 (The Routledge History of the Ancient World) by Martin Goodman in Back Matter
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