The Spread of Coins in the Hellenistic World

Andrew Meadows ()
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Andrew Meadows: The American Numismatic Society

A chapter in Explaining Monetary and Financial Innovation, 2014, pp 169-195 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract After the conquests of Alexander the Great coinage took on new forms and spread into geographic regions it had not previously reached. Moreover it began to be issued into and used within new political and economic constructs, and it arguably started to reach sectors of the economy for which it had previously been unsuited for use. This paper focuses on these four types of change: form, geographic spread and an attendant shift in scale, systemic change and manipulation, and diversification of use. It offers outlines of the evidence for them as it is exhibited by some of the coinage, and also suggests ways in which numismatists and economic historians of the ancient world have attempted to rationalise or explain them.

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Money Supply; Ancient World; Attic Weight; Hellenic Currency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06109-2_7

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