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OUP USA Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to make accessible to students, scholars, and the lay public annotated, up-to-date information regarding the major coinages of the Greco-Roman world. An international group of experts has been asked to treat their areas of expertise, and the result is a broadly illustrated introduction to the subject.Trade Review"As Metcalf notes (xvii), it is over 100 years since the last single volume guide to Greek coinage was produced, and there has never been an equivalent work for Rome. This new handbook is, therefore, long overdue and hugely welcome. All involved are to be congratulated and, while in a project as broad as this there are inevitably some omissions, we now have something where there was nothing, and for that we should be very gratefulEL. It is much to be hoped that students of the history of all periods will find their way to this rich new resource." --Andrew Meadows, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This book represents an unprecedented innovation in numismatic literature and is becoming widely regarded as the best introduction to classical ancient coins. It is far more than a guide written solely for collectors. Instead, it was written to serve also as an introduction for graduate or post-doctoral students in the ancient cultures who seek training in classical numismatics. As a work in the renowned Oxford Handbooks series, this volume was written to offer an authoritative and annotated state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in the subject area. However, it is just that focus that makes it such a valuable text for serious collectors of ancient coins." -- Roger Kuntz, Rochester Numismatic AssociationTable of ContentsPreface ; Abbreviations ; Introduction, William E. Metcalf ; 1. The Substance of Coinage: The Role of Scientific Analysis in Ancient Numismatics, Matthew Ponting ; Archaic and Classical Greek Coinage ; 2. The Monetary Background of Early Coinage, John H. Kroll ; 3. Asia Minor to the Ionian Revolt, Koray Konuk ; 4. The Coinage of the Persian Empire, Michael Alram ; 5. The Coinage of Athens, 6th - 1st century B.C., Peter van Alfen ; 6. Aegina, the Cyclades and Crete, Kenneth Sheedy ; 7. The Coinage of Italy, N. K. Rutter ; 8. The Coinage of Sicily, Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert ; 9. Greece and the Balkans to 360 B.C., Selene Psoma ; The Hellenistic World ; 10. Royal Hellenistic Coinages from Alexander to Mithridates, Francois de Callatay ; 11. The Hellenistic World: The Cities of Mainland Greece and Asia Minor, Richard Ashton ; 12. The Coinage of the Ptolemies, Catharine C. Lorber ; 13. The Seleucids, Arthur Houghton ; 14. Greek Coinages of Palestine, Oren Tal ; 15. The Coinage of the Parthians, Fabrizio Sinisi ; The Roman World ; 16. Early Roman Coinage and its Italian Context, Andrew Burnett ; 17. The Denarius Coinage of the Roman Republic, Bernhard E. Woytek ; 18. The Julio-Claudians, Rienhold Wolters ; 19. Ancient Spain, Pere P. Ripolles ; 20. Flavian Coinage, Ian Carradice ; 21. The Coinage of the Provinces through Hadrian, Michel Amandry ; 22. Trajan and Hadrian, Martin Beckmann ; 23. Antonine Coinage, Liv Mariah Yarrow ; 24. The Provinces after Commodus, RAnn Johnston ; 25. Syria in the Roman Period, 64 B.C. - A.D. 260, Kevin Butcher ; 26. Roman Coinages of Palestine, Haim Gitler ; 27. The Severans, Richard Abdy ; 28. From Gordian III to the Gallic Empire (A.D. 238-74), Roger Bland ; 29. The Later Third Century, Sylviane Estiot ; 30. The Coinage of Roman Egypt, Angelo Geissen ; 31. Tetrarchy and the House of Constantine, Richard Abdy ; 32. The Coinage of the Later Roman Empire, A.D. 364-498, Sam Moorhead ; 33. The Transformation of the West, Alan M. Stahl ; Appendix 1: Marks of value on later Roman coins, Roger Bland ; Appendix 2: The earliest Christian symbols on Roman coins, Richard Abdy ; Indices ; a. Mints ; b. Persons ; c. General
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Oxford University Press National Museum of Scotland
Book SynopsisThis new volume in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles describes and illustrates the Scottish coins minted between 1603 and 1709 that are held in the National Museum of Scotland''s collection. The Museum also holds an important collection of dies and related objects, the majority of which belong to the 17th-century Scottish coinage. These have therefore been included in the volume. Each coin and dye is fully described and clearly illustrated by high quality photographs.Introductory chapters discuss the history of the Scottish coinage of the period and contemporary minting practices. With over 100 plates, a list of sources of all the coins, concordances, bibliography, and indexes, the volume is a comprehensive guide to the National Museum of Scotland''s collection.Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES PREFACE THE COINAGES OF 1603-1709 SOURCES OF THE COLLECTION, WITH A LIST OF FINDS ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY ARRANGEMENT OF THE CATALOGUE PLATES (coins) James VI gold James VI silver James VI copper Charles I gold Charles I silver Charles I silver and copper Charles I copper Charles II silver Charles II silver and copper Charles II copper Charles II copper and James VII silver James VII silver James VII silver and William and Mary silver William and Mary silver William and Mary silver and copper William and Mary copper William II gold and silver William II silver William II copper 0095. Anne pre-Union silver Anne post-Union silver of the Edinburgh mint Anne post-Union silver of the Edinburgh mint and James VIII pattern guineas James VIII pattern crowns, and a modern forgery THE MINTING TOOLS P. P. Gaspar with G. Dyer: APPENDIX - THE COUNTERPUNCHEONS PLATES (minting tools) Eight perspectives of die T6 T1-T12 T13-T33 T34-T52 T53-T62 T63-T73 T74-T87 T88-T105 T106-T118 T119-T132 T133-T143 CONCORDANCES
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Oxford University Press Money in the Western Legal Tradition
Book SynopsisMonetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of Western monetary law, covering the civil law and Anglo-American common law legal systems from the High Middle Ages up to the middle of the 20th century. Weaving a detailed tapestry of the changing concepts of money and private transactions throughout the ages, the contributors investigate the special contribution made by legal scholars and practitioners to our understanding of money and the laws that govern it. Divided in five parts, the book begins with the coin currency of the Middle Ages, moving through the invention of nominalism in the early modern period to cashless payment and the rise of the banking system and paper money, then charting the progression to fiat money in the modern era. Each part commences with an overview of the monetaryTrade ReviewThe text should be of value to academics and others with an interest in the theory of money, whether from a legal, economic or historical perspective. It may also provide inspiration to practitioners searching for novel solutions to legal dilemmas created by ever more complex developments in the international monetary system. * Charles Proctor, Journal of World Investment and Trade *Table of ContentsPART I. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES: COINS AND THE LAW; PART II. CIVIL LAW; PART III. MONEY IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: THE TRIUMPH OF NOMINALISM; PART III. THE EVOLUTION OF CASHLESS PAYMENT: BANK MONEY; PART IV. THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: THE EMERGENCE OF PAPER MONEY; PART V. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: FIAT MONEY
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Oxford University Press The Wealth of AngloSaxon England
Book SynopsisHow did the Anglo-Saxons obtain the treasure that tempted Vikings to raid England frequently in the ninth century and again between 980 and 1018? As Britain then had no gold mine and its lead mines yielded very little silver, this treasure must have been imported. Some may have been given, but most was obtained by trade. Until the ninth century the main source was Francia where there was a lively demand for English produce. Cross Channel trade flourished, much of it passing through the major ports, or wics, that developed in the seventh century. The rapid decline of this trade in the ninth century was caused, not by the Vikings, but by a general shortage of new silver in western Europe after c. 850, reflected in the debasement of the Frankish and Anglo-Saxon coinages. Silver was, however, imported to England by the Danes who settled there in the late ninth century. A very important source of new silver was discovered in the 960s in Germany. This led to a rapid expansion of the German eTrade ReviewSawyer handles the evidence masterfully and his work is as engaging and thought-provoking as ever. * BBC History Magazine *For nearly fifty years, Professor Sawyer has expounded on the riches of late Anglo-Saxon England ... It is a mark of the quality of Sawyer's scholarship that, nearly half a century later, his central argument not only stands, but has been bolstered. * Alex Burghart, Times Literary Supplement *It is testimony to the strength of Sawyer's original ideas that so much has not only survived decades of research, including his own extensive contributions, but has been corroborated by it. * Scott Ashley, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Tempore Regis Edwardi ; 3. From solidi to sceattas ; 4. The Eighth and Ninth Centuries ; 5. From Edward the Elder to Edward the Confessor ; 6. 'Whoever has cash can acquire anything he wants' ; Appendix: Estimating dies, coins, and currency ; References
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Cambridge University Press Medieval European Coinage 1 The Early Middle Ages 5th10th centuries Volume 1 the Early Middle Ages 5th 10th Centuries Medieval European Coinage Series Number 1
Book SynopsisThis, the first volume of Medieval European Coinage, surveys the coinage of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century to the emergence of recognizable 'national' political units in the tenth. It starts with the Vandals, Visigoths, Burgundians and other Germanic invaders of the Empire, whose coins were modelled on contemporary issues of the Western or Eastern emperors. The coinage of the Franks is followed from early Merovingian times through to the establishment and subsequent fragmentation of the Carolingian empire. Italy is represented by the coinages of the Ostrogoths, Lombards, Carolingians and popes down to the Ottoman conquest in the mid-tenth century. The coinage of the Anglo-Saxons is traced from the introduction of minting in the early seventh century to the emergence of a united kingdom during the first half of the tenth century, including the aberrant coinages of Northumbria and the Anglo-Viking coinages of the Danelaw.Table of ContentsForeword Graham Pollard; List of plates; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on spelling; 1. Introduction; 2. The Vandals; 3. Odovacar and the Ostrogoths, 476–552; 4. The Visigoths; 5. The Lombards; 6. Minor Germanic peoples; 7. The Franks and Frisians in the Merovingian period; 8. The Anglo-Saxons: sixth–mid eighth centuries; 9. The Carolingians; 10. The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings: eighth–tenth centuries; Appendices; Bibliography; Catalogue; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Medieval European Coinage Volume 14 South Italy Sicily Sardinia
Book SynopsisThis volume of Medieval European Coinage deals with the coinage of south Italy, Sicily and Sardinia between the mid-tenth century, when Volume 1 ended, and the reign of Ferdinand the Catholic, on the threshold of the modern era. The complex background to the history of this region makes its coinages among the most interesting of medieval Europe.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'With its careful analysis and exhaustive bibliography, this volume will serve well as a handbook for the historian dealing with the economy of medieval southern Italy as well as for the numismatist classifying its coinage. When all of the volumes of the series are available, we will at least have the basis for a comprehensive view of the monetary development of medieval Europe.' Journal of European Economic HistoryTable of ContentsList of plates; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on spelling; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-Norman coinages, and minor states subsequently; 3. The Normans: from the conquest to the kingdom; 4. The Hohenstaufen, 1194–1266; 5. Charles I of Anjou, 1266–85; 6. Naples under the Angevins, from Charles II to René of Anjou, 1285–1442; 7. Sicily under the Aragonese, 1282–1416; 8. Sardinia, from the twelfth century to 1416; 9. The Aragonese dominions of Sicily, Sardinia and Naples (1416–1516); 10. Naples and south Italy, 1458–1504: Ferrante to Louis XII; Appendices; Bibliography; Catalogue; Concordances; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Mint
Book SynopsisIn this 1953 book the story of the London Mint up until the 1950s is told with unimpeachable authority by Sir John Craig, former Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint and Engraver of the King's Seals. The whole work is illustrated from the archives of the mint.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Table of sovereigns; Introduction; 1. Early mints; 2. Concentration in London; 3. Shaping the tower mint; 4. The return of gold; 5. End of the Middle Ages; 6. Renaissance and debasement; 7. Elizabeth I; 8. Court and commonwealth; 9. Mechanization of the mint; 10. Guineas and coppers; 11. The Great Silver Recoinage; 12. Isaac Newton; 13. The age of deputies; 14. Later eighteenth-century coinage; 15. Under the committee on coin; 16. William Wellesley Pole; 17. Cabinet masters; 18. Two masters of science; 19. Growth of the modern mint; 20. Modern British coinage; 21. Ireland; 22. Other external coinages; 23. Trial of the Pyx; The appendices; Bibliography; Subject index; Index of the persons, with their mint connections.
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Cambridge University Press The Roman Monetary System The Eastern Provinces from the First to the Third Century AD
Book SynopsisThe Roman monetary system was highly complex. It involved official Roman coins in both silver and bronze, which some provinces produced while others imported them from mints in Rome and elsewhere, as well as, in the East, a range of civic coinages. This is a comprehensive study of the workings of the system in the Eastern provinces from the Augustan period to the third century AD, when the Roman Empire suffered a monetary and economic crisis. The Eastern provinces exemplify the full complexity of the system, but comparisons are made with evidence from the Western provinces as well as with appropriate case studies from other historical times and places. The book will be essential for all Roman historians and numismatists and of interest to a broader range of historians of economics and finance.Table of ContentsFraming the Roman monetary system: an introduction; 1. Statistics and numismatics; 2. Planning the financial policy of the Roman state; 3. Trimetallism and bimetallic laws; 4. The application of the quantity theory of money on third-century economics; 5. Roman monetary integration; 6. Micro-economies; 7. Metallism vs chartalism; Appendix 1. The inscription of Mylasa; Appendix 2. Excavation finds, coin hoards and museums bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Early Hellenistic Portraiture 1 Image Style Context
Book SynopsisExamines the styles and contexts of portrait statues produced during one of the most dynamic eras of Western art, the early Hellenistic age. Using methodologies from a wide range of fields, an international team of experts investigates problems that have consistently marked this fascinating body of ancient material culture.Table of ContentsPart I. Preface and Acknowledgments: Part II. Introduction: 1. Early Hellenistic portraiture Ralf von den Hoff and Peter Schultz; Part III. The Transformation of the Classical Legacy: 2. Praxiteles and fourth century Athenian portraiture Aileen Ajootian; 3. Attic grave reliefs and portrait sculpture in fourth century Athens Johannes Bergemann; Part IV. Styles and Patterns of Representation: 4. Naturalism and classicism Ralf von den Hoff; 5. Portraits of women in the early Hellenistic period Sheila Dillon; 6. The Daochos monument at Delphi: the style and setting of a family portrait in historic dress Wilfred Geominy; 7. Fashion and meaning: beardless portraits of artists and literati in the early Hellenistic period Stefan Schmidt; 8. The emergence of ruler portraiture on early Hellenistic coins: the importance of being divine John H. Kroll; 9. Alexander, Philitas, and the Skeletos: Poseidippos and truth in early Hellenistic portraiture Andrew Stewart; Part V. Patrons and Settings: 10. Early Hellenistic portrait statues on the Athenian acropolis: survival, reuse, transformation Catherine M. Keesling; 11. Human achievement and divine favor: the religious context of early Hellenistic portraiture Ralf Krumeich; 12. Space and visualization of power in the Greek polis: the award of portrait statues in decrees from Athens G. J. Oliver; 13. Leochares' Argead portraits in the Philippeion Peter Schultz; Part VI. Out of Athens: Egypt and the Spread of Hellenistic Styles: 14. Berenice II in Athens Olga Palagia; 15. The philosophers of poets in the Sarapieion at Memphis Marianne Bergmann.
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