Coinage in Roman Egypt: The Hoard Evidence
In this volume, Erik Christiansen uses Alexandrian coin hoards to explore the use of money in Egypt from its conquest by Augustus in 30 BC to Diocletian's currency reform in AD 296. Although these finds, with their wide array of Graeco-Roman and Alexandrian reverses, have traditionally been classified as a part of Greek coinage, he demonstrates clearly that they belong to the Roman imperial coinage. The hoards also show that Roman Egypt enjoyed a widespread monetized economy, in addition to...
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By hoard, scholars mean at least two coins, or at least one coin and another object of value, that seem to have been deliberately buried or lost together. They include hoards that have been added to over time. Christiansen examines what the hoard evidence from Roman Egypt can reveal about the use of coins as money in Egypt as a Roman province from the conquest by Augustus in 30 BC to Diocletian's currency reform in AD 296. Some of his chapters look at particular hoards or locations, and others at historical events or periods. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. IThe evidence of coin hoards13Ch. IICurrency in Roman Egypt33Ch. IIIThe hoards of tetradrachms : Karanis59Ch. IVOther hoards of tetradrachms74Ch. VNero and a stable currency89Ch. VICommodus and a dormant crisis?106Ch. VIIGallienus and Aurelian116Ch. VIIIProbus and the tetrarchy126Ch. IXFrom corrosion to clarity135
