Coinage and Money Under the Roman Republic by Michael Crawford
English | 5 Sept. 1985 | ISBN: 0416123007 | 384 Pages | PDF | 47 MB
English | 5 Sept. 1985 | ISBN: 0416123007 | 384 Pages | PDF | 47 MB
Debate about the economy of the Hellenistic world and about the consequences of the Roman conquest of th at world has tended t.o revolve inconclusively a round problems of growth and decline. Yet one complex of facts is clear: at the bcginning of the Hellenistic period, there was no coi nage at Rome and a wide variety of coi nages was in use elsewhere; by the ti me of August us, not only was the whole of the Mediterranean world under Roman rule, most ofit was taxed by Rome and used the Roman monetary system and Roman coinage.