Debasement : Manipulation of Coin Standards in Pre-Modern Monetary Systems.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Introduction: Kevin Butcher -- Part I: Coin debasement: approaches and explanations -- 1. The scientific analysis of coinage: expectations,realities, problems and potential: Matthew Ponting -- 2.Debasement in the ancient and medieval worlds:explanations and theories: Martin Allen -- 3.Gold coinage and debasement. A preliminary examination of thefineness of Roman gold coinage from the Republic and early Empire: Arnaud Suspène, Dorian Bocciarelli, Maryse Blet-Lemarquandand Benjamin Gehres -- 4.Coin debasement, climate and contagion insecond-century Egypt: some intersections: Colin P. Elliott -- Part II: Coin production, metal supply and debasement -- 5.Experiments reproducing Roman debased alloys: Nicola George -- 6. From owls to eagles. Metallic composition of Egyptian coinage(fifth-first centuries BC): Thomas Faucher and Julien Olivier -- 7.Gold and silver mining in the Roman empire: Alfred M. Hirt -- 8. Metal and system in Roman imperial mints.Flan production, quality control and the internal organisation of minting establishments during the Principate: Bernhard E. Woytek1 -- Part III Debasement and its consequences -- 9. The Severan reforms of the late second century AD:a case of monetary déjà vu?: Nathan Murphy -- 10. Inflation and monetary reforms in the fourth century:Diocletian's twin Edicts of AD 3011: Gilles Bransbourg -- 11. Denarii mixti: Debasement and rhetoric in the early Middle Ages(fifth-twelfth centuries): Rory Naismith -- 12. Was later medieval sterling too strong?: Nick Mayhew -- Back cover.

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