Readership: Classicists; ancient historians; economic historians; numismatists and coin collectors.
Edited by W. V. Harris, Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University
"Harris has done an excellent job of bringing to the fore themes that cut across the contributions." - Vedia Izzet and Robert Shorrock
1: John Kroll: The Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece 2: David M. Schaps: What Was Money in Ancient Greece and Rome? 3: Richard Seaford: Money and Tragedy 4: Edward E. Cohen: The Elasticity of the Money-Supply at Athens 5: J. G. Manning: Coinage as `Code' in Ptolemaic Egypt 6: David B. Hollander: The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic 7: David Kessler & Peter Temin: Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire 8: Elio Lo Cascio: The Function of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire 9: W. V. Harris: The Nature of Roman Money 10: Jean Andreau: The Use and Survival of Coins and of Gold and Silver in the Vesuvian Cities 11: Constantina Katsari: The Monetization of the Roman Frontier Provinces: A Quantitative Revision 12: Walter Scheidel: The Divergent Evolution of Coinage in Eastern and Western Eurasia
