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Cambridge University Press (1974). 1983 reprint.
Part 1, 566 pages, Part 2, pages 569-753, 70 plates, key to plates, concordances, indices. Two volumes. Cloth. Very Fine as new condition, binding sound and tight, nice copy. A must for any collector of Roman Republican coins. We will ship this book by airmail to any location.
Contents:
List of tables;
List of figures;
Preface;
Introduction;
1. The first period of the denarius coinage;
2. The pre-denarius coinage;
3. The secondary century - relative chronology;
4. The secondary century - absolute chronology;
5. The first century;
Appendix;
Catalogue;
Plates;
Indices.
A comprehensive study of the Roman Republican coinage. Michael Crawford catalogues the known issues in the period from about 300 to 31 B.C., describing and dating each as fully and precisely as the evidence permits. He provides also an extended commentary on the production and administration of the coinage and on the political background and careers of the moneyers themselves. All the main coin types are illustrated in the plates and each one is individually discussed. The denarius coinage of the Roman Republic is unique among ancient coinages for the diversity and quantity of the historical information it can provide. The moneyers came from families which formed the ruling class of the Republic and often went on themselves to hold the highest magistracies. The types they chose for their coins reflect their family ambitions and achievements and the political struggles in which they were engaged. The history of the coinage is therefore inextricably bound up with the history of the Republic itself. The chief difficulties in exploiting this major historical source have always been the dating of successive issues and their correct attribution to mints. The coins themselves rarely have any explicit indication of date. Mr Crawford bases his dating-scheme on a close inspection of Republican coin hoards and on a personal examination of all the major European and American collections. He has been able to improve very substantially on the work of all earlier cataloguers. This book is an invaluable work of reference for all ancient and economic historians, numismatists and Roman archaeologists.
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