by:
Duncan-Jones, Richard

Publisher:
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt)
Published:September 1998
ISBN:0521648297
Format:Paperback
Pages:320

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.