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Debasement : manipulation of coin standards in pre-modern monetary systems /
The debasement of coinage, particularly of silver, was a common feature of pre-modern monetary systems. Most coinages were issued by state authorities and the condition of a coinage is often seen (rightly or wrongly) as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the state that produced it. While i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The scientific analysis of coinage: expectations, realities, problems and potential / Matthew Ponting
- Debasement in the ancient and medieval worlds: explanations and theories / Martin Allen
- Gold coinage and debasement. A preliminary examination of the fineness of Roman gold coinage from the Republic and early Empire / Arnaud Suspène, Dorian Bocciarelli, Maryse Blet-Lemarquand and Benjamin Gehres
- Coin debasement, climate and contagion in second-century Egypt: some intersections / Colin P. Elliott
- Experiments reproducing Roman debased alloys / Nicola George
- From owls to eagles. Metallic composition of Egyptian coinage (fifth-first centuries BC) / Thomas Faucher and Julien Olivier
- Gold and silver mining in the Roman empire / Afred M. Hirt
- Metal and system in Roman imperial mints. Flan production, quality control and the internal organisation of minting establishments during the Principate / Bernhard E. Woytek
- The Severan reforms of the late second century AD: a case of monetary déja vu? / Nathan Murphy
- Inflation and monetary reforms in the fourth century: Diocletian's twin Edicts of AD 301 / Gilles Bransbourg
- Denarii mixti: debasement and rhetoric in the early Middle Ages (fifth-twelfth centuries) / Rory Naismith
- Was later medieval sterling too strong? / Nick Mayhew