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The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans
Harris, W. V. Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923335-9




9 The Nature of Roman Money
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233359.003.0010

W. V. Harris
Abstract: Scholars have generally agreed that all Roman money consisted of coins. This chapter argues that this consensus view is badly mistaken. Specifically, it is argued that that bullion was very seldom used for making payments during high classical times, except in emergencies and across the borders of the Roman Empire.

Keywords: Roman Empire, money, bullion, payments,

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Preface
Introduction
1 The Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece
2 What Was Money in Ancient Greece?
3 Money and Tragedy
4 Elasticity of the Money Supply at Athens
5 Coinage as ‘Code’ in Ptolemaic Egypt
6 The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic
7 Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire
8 The Function of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire
9 The Nature of Roman Money
10 The Use and Survival of Coins and of Gold and Silver in the Vesuvian Cities
11 Money and Credit in Roman Egypt
12 The Monetization of Rome's Frontier Provinces
13 The Divergent Evolution of Coinage in Eastern and Western Eurasia
Bibliography
Index
 
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