TY - BOOK ID - 73418962 TI - Coinage in Roman Egypt : the hoard evidence PY - 2004 SN - 8772889640 9788772889641 PB - Aarhus, DK: Aarhus University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Coin hoards KW - Coins, Roman KW - Roman coins KW - Hoards, Coin KW - Egypt KW - Antiquities, Roman. KW - Coins KW - Antiquities, Roman KW - Coins, Roman - Egypt KW - Coin hoards - Egypt KW - Egypt - Antiquities, Roman UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73418962 AB - In this volume, Erik Christiansen uses Alexandrian coin hoards - meaning finds of at least two coins buried together - to explore the use of money in Egypt from its conquest by Augustus in 30 B.C. to Diocletian's currency reform in A.D. 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 the credit system described in extant papyri. The relative abundance of such documents provides Christiansen with a good supplemental source of information for his conclusions. And since financial administration probably was quite uniform throughout the Empire, this book provides a useful window not only on Rome's shifting economic fortunes, but also on monetary policy in other parts of the Empire that did not leave behind the same rich heritage of coins and documents as Egypt. ER -