From coins to history : selected numismatic studies / Harold B. Mattingly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattingly, Harold B., 1923-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Numismatics, Greek.

Numismatics, Roman.

Coins, Greek.

Coins, Roman.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Harbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]

Summary:

Harold B. Mattingly's work has always helped direct and develop the fields of numismatic and epigraphical studies. Here is a collection of his key numismatic essays gathered into an easily accessible volume with short introductions written by the author. The studies presented in From Coins to History transformed our interpretations of numismatic evidence. In this volume Mattingly covers a wide range of time and cultures ranging from ca. 480 B.C. in Sicily to the early Roman Empire down to Nero. Even as Mattingly's work encompasses a broad historical scope, these studies are united in their approach to the numismatic evidence. They are bound together by a firm belief in new and extraordinary ways of integrating information gleaned from coins with other forms of historical evidence to enhance the historical picture. Because many of these papers may be hard to find, collecting them in one volume will be of particular use to libraries and scholars of ancient history.

Contents:

1. The Damareteion Controversy: A New Approach 2

2. A New Light on the Early Silver Coinage of Teos 16

3. New Light on the Athenian Standards Decree 24

4. The Beginning of Athenian New Style Silver Coinage 30

5. The Coinage of Mithradates III, Pharnakes, and Mithradates IV of Pontos 44

6. The Second-Century B.C. Seleucid Countermarks: Anchor and Facing Helios Head 52

7. Some Problems in Second-Century Attic Prosopography 59

8. Some Third Magistrates in the Athenian New Style Silver Coinage 85

9. The Roma/Victory Romano Didrachms and the Start of Roman Coinage 100

10. The Numismatic Evidence and the Founding of Narbo Martius 130

11. L. Julius Caesar, Governor of Macedonia 152

12. C. Verres and the Pirates 177

13. Roman Republican Coinage, ca. 150-90 B.C. 199

14. The Management of the Roman Republican Mint 227

15. Coinage and the Roman State 260

16. The Mesagne Hoard and the Coinage of the Late Republic 280

17. Money for an Empire: The Julio-Claudian Experiment 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0472113313

OCLC:

52687928