Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199237840 ISBN 13: 9780199237845

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Synopsis

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.

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Review

There is no doubt that this is a very important piece of work (Ancient West and East)

About the Author

Christopher Howgego is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Reader in Greek and Roman Numismatics in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Wolfson College Volker Heuchert is Collections Manager of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum and AHRB Institutional Fellow for the Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period Project (AHRB and University of Oxford) Andrew Burnett is Deputy Director and Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199237840
• ISBN 13: 9780199237845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Howgego Christopher