TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butcher,Kevin
TI  - Debasement: Manipulation of Coin Standards in Pre-Modern Monetary Systems
SN  - 9781789253993
AV  - HG221 .B883 2020 
U1  - 332.4 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Havertown
PB  - Oxbow Books, Limited
KW  - Coinage-History-To 1500
KW  - Money-History-To 1500
KW  - Coinage
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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