The Invention Of Coinage And The Monetization Of Ancient Greece
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The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
Author: David Schaps
language: en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date: 2015-09-02
Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money.
Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World
The papers in this volume re-assess the role of coined money in the ancient Greek world. Using new approaches, the book makes the results of numismatic as well as historical research accessible to students and scholars of ancient history.