The Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage: From the Reform of Nero to the Reform of Trajan
The fineness of Roman imperial and provincial coinage has been regarded as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the Roman Empire, with the apparent gradual decline of the silver content being treated as evidence for worsening deficits and the contraction of the supply of natural resources from which the coins were made. This book explores the composition of Roman silver coinage of the first century AD, re-examining traditional interpretations in the light of an entirely new programme of analyses of the coins, which illustrates the inadequacy of many earlier analytical projects. It provides new evidence for the supply of materials and…
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Weitere Autoren: Ponting, Matthew / Evans, Jane (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-107-02712-1
- EAN: 9781107027121
- Produktnummer: 15910197
- Verlag: Cambridge
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 830 S.
- Masse: H25.1 cm x B17.7 cm x D4.5 cm 1'786 g
- Gewicht: 1786
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Kevin Butcher is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London and has written extensively on Roman coinage and monetary systems.
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