Money and government in the Roman empire

Rome's conquests gave her access to the accumulated metal resources of most of the known world. An abundant gold and silver coinage circulated within her empire as a result. But coinage changes later suggest difficulty in maintaining metal supplies. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, Dr Duncan-Jones uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. He constructs a new profile of minting, financial policy and monetary circulation, by analysing extensive coin evidence collected for the first time. His findings considerably advance our knowledge of crucial areas of the Roman economy.

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Preface

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Part 1 The Economics of Empire

1 Surplus and deficit

2 Money, prices and inflation

3 The imperial budget

4 Tax and tax-cycles

Part 2 The Coin-Evidence

5 Coin-hoards and their origin

6 The implications of coin-hoards

Part 3 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

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