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Language: en
Pages: 261
Pages: 261
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-29 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems eventually became. The contributo
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable po
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-16 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
The papers in this volume reassess the role of coined money in the ancient Greek world. Using new approaches, the book makes the results of numismatic as well a
Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-11 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BC