Richard Duncan-Jones, Duncan-Jones Richard

Money and Government in the Roman Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Tables.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521648295
• ISBN-10: 0521648297
• Artikelnr.: 21669057

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Abbreviations
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: the chronology and structure of coin-output
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. Aureus and denarius hoards used in the main anlaysis
Bibliography
Index.