Coin Books - The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 737.4938 EAN: 9780472113330 ISBN: 047211333X Label: University of Michigan Press Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 312 Publication Date: 2003-12-11 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Studio: University of Michigan Press
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Editorial Reviews: Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money. David M. Schaps is Professor of Classics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.