MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03950mam a2200421 a 4500
001 1849703
005 20220609010741.0
008 951107s1996 mdua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 95050043
020 $a0801852919 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm33817980
035 $9ALT4416CU
035 $a(NNC)1849703
035 $a1849703
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOrLoB-B
043 $ae------$aaw-----$aff-----
050 00 $aCJ843$b.H35 1996
082 00 $a737.4937$220
100 1 $aHarl, Kenneth W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85197595
245 10 $aCoinage in the Roman economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700 /$cKenneth W. Harl.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1996.
300 $ax, 533 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAncient society and history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 485-513) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tCoins, the Money of the Roman Economy --$g2.$tMonetization of Roman Italy, 500-200 B.C. --$g3.$tThe Denarius and Overseas Expansion, 200-30 B.C. --$g4.$tThe Augustan Coinage, 30 B.C.-A.D. 235 --$g5.$tCurrencies of the Roman East, 30 B.C.-A.D. 200 --$g6.$tThe Great Debasement and Reform, A.D. 193-305 --$g7.$tImperial Regulation and Reform, A.D. 305-498 --$g8.$tThe Loss of Roman Monetary Ways, A.D. 400-700 --$g9.$tGovernment's Aims and Needs --$g10.$tCoins in the Cities and Markets of the Roman World --$g11.$tCoins, Prices, and Wages --$g12.$tRoman Coins beyond the Imperial Frontiers --$tAppendix: Weights and Measures in the Roman World.
520 $aThe premier form of Roman money since the time of the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.), coins were vital to the success of Roman state finances, taxation, markets, and commerce beyond the frontiers. Yet until now, the economic and social history of Rome has been written independently of numismatic studies, which detail such technical information as weight standards, mint output, hoards, and finds at archaeological sites.
520 8 $aIn 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.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aDrawing on both literary and documentary sources, as well as on current methods of metallurgical study and statistical analysis of coins from archaeological sites, Harl presents a sweeping overview of a system of coinage in use for more than a millennium.
520 8 $aChallenging much recent scholarship, he emphasizes the important role played by coins during overseas expansion of the Roman Republic during the second century B.C., in imperial inflationary policies during the third and fourth centuries A.D., and in the dissolution of the Roman Mediterranean order in the seventh century A.D. He also offers the first region-by-region analysis of prices and wages throughout Roman history with reference to the changing buying power of the major circulating denominations.
520 8 $aAnd he shows how the seldom studied provincial, civic, and imitative coinages were in fact important components of Roman currency. Richly illustrated with photographic reproductions of nearly three hundred specimens, Coinage in the Roman Economy offers a significant contribution to Roman economic history. It will be of interest to scholars and students of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages as well as to professional and amateur numismatists.
650 0 $aCoins, Roman.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85027857
650 0 $aCoinage$zRome$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120562
651 0 $aRome$xEconomic conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115102
830 0 $aAncient society and history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86703127
852 00 $bglx$hCJ843$i.H35 1996