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Richly illustrated with photographic reproductions of nearly three hundred specimens, Coinage in the Roman Economy offers a significant contribution to Roman economic history. The first comprehensive history of how Roman coins were minted and used.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Coins, the Money of the Roman Economy
Chapter 2. Monetization of Roman Italy, 500–200 B.C.
Chapter 3. The Denarius and Overseas Expansion, 200–30 B.C.
Chapter 4. The Augustan Coinage, 30 B.C.–A.D 235
Chapter 5. Currencies of the Roman East, 30 B.C.–A.D 200
Chapter 6. The Great Debasement and Reform, A.D. 193–305
Chapter 7. Imperial Regulation and Reform, A.D.. 305–498
Chapter 8. The Loss of Roman Monetary Ways, A.D. 400–700
Chapter 9. Government's Aims and Needs
Chapter 10. Coins in the Cities and Markets of the Roman World
Chapter 11. Coins, Prices, and Wages
Chapter 12. Roman Coins Beyond the Imperial Frontiers
Appendix: Weights and Measures in the Roman World
Plates
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Kenneth W. Harl, professor of history and Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, teaches classical and Byzantine history at Tulane University. He is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180-275.

Reviews

This thought-provoking work... should be important reading for scholars in a variety of disciplines. It challenges, for example, the long-held belief that a large-scale drain of Roman specie went to India and the East in the early centuries of the Roman Empire and the concept that the western provinces of the Roman Empire were never completely monetized. These reinterpretations and others, presented forcefully with careful documentation, should arouse the attention of anyone interested in ancient or medieval history, economics, or numismatics. History