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Money and Government in the Roman Empire
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by:
Duncan-Jones, Richard
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Publisher:
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt)
Published: September 1998
ISBN: 0521648297
Format:Paperback
Pages:320
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Book Description
Table of Contents
Part I. The Economics of Empire: 1. Surplus and deficit; 2. Money, prices and inflation; 3. The imperial budget; 4. Tax and tax-cycles; Part II. The Coin-Evidence: 5. Coin-hoards and their origin; 6. The implications of coin-hoards;
Part III. Money and Money-Supply: 7. Coinage and currency: an overview; 8. The chronology of mint-output; 9. Reign-studies: chronology and structure; 10. The size of die-populations; 11. The size of coin-populations; 12. Mobility and immobility of coin;
13. Weight-loss and circulation-speed; 14. Wastage and reminting of coin; 15. Change and deterioration; 16. Contrast and variation in the coinage; Appendices: 1. Payments of congiaria; 2. The chronology of minting under Tiberius; 3. Variations in
land-tax in Egypt; 4. Assessments of tax-revenue in the sources; 5. Tax comparisons with Mughal India; 6. Hoards below the sampling threshold; 7. Rates of donative; 8. Programs for finding negative binomial k' and for estimating die-populations; 9.
Die-productivity in medieval evidence; 10. Aurtus and denarius hoards used in the main anlaysis; Bibliography; Indices.
Ingram
Dr. Richard Duncan-Jones discusses coin minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire,
adding considerably to our body of knowledge about the period. Photos. Graphs.
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