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Title Power of Money : Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire
Published University of Pennsylvania Press 1998

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Genesis and Organization -- CHAPTER 1: NUMISMATIC BASICS AND HOARD EVIDENCE -- CHAPTER 2: CURTAILMENT OF ALLIED MINTING -- CHAPTER 3: ELECTRUM MINTS -- CHAPTER 4: MINTS IN CONTINUOUS OPERATION -- CHAPTER 5: THE MINTS OF THE AUTONOMOUS ALLIES -- CHAPTER 6: WAS MINTING SILVER EVER PROHIBITED? -- CHAPTER 7: THE ATTIC MINT AND MONETARY OUTPUT -- CHAPTER 8: THE LITERARY EVIDENCE -- CHAPTER 9: CONTEXTS FOR MONETARY POLICY -- CHAPTER 10: TRIBUTE AND MONETARY POLICY -- CHAPTER 11: METROLOGICAL CONSOLIDATION -- CHAPTER 12: THE COINAGE DECREE: PART I -- CHAPTER 13: THE COINAGE DECREE: PART 11 -- CHAPTER 14: THE COINAGE DECREE: PART III -- CHAPTER 15: THE COINAGE DECREE: PART IV AND CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 16: IG I -- CHAPTER 17: THE DATING AND THE INSCRIPTION OF THE COINAGE DECREE -- CHAPTER 18: MONETARY INTEGRATION -- CHAPTER 19: HEGEMONY AND MONETARY DISINTEGRATION: THE HOME FRONT -- CHAPTER 20: IMITATIONS OF ATTIC COINS -- CHAPTER 21: THE COINAGE LAW OF 375/4 -- CHAPTER 22: FINAL THOUGHTS: HEGEMONY AND MONETARY POLICY -- APPENDIX: ATHENIAN ALLIES: COINAGE AND TRIBUTE -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX
Summary "The Power of Money is a brilliant and highly original piece of scholarship on a group of inscriptions about which much has been written and whose interpretation is crucial for our understanding of the way in which Athens ruled her empire."--Martin Ostwald, Swarthmore College
Notes In English
Subject Coinage -- Greece -- Athens -- History
Monetary policy -- Greece -- Athens -- History
Politics in numismatics -- Greece -- Athens -- History
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Coinage.
Monetary policy.
Politics in numismatics.
Greece -- Athens.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1283211629
9781283211628
9780812201901
0812201906