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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 8113381, member: 74712&quot;]Liv Mariah Yarrow, <i>The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources</i>, Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World, Series Editor Andrew Meadows (Cambridge: University Press, 2021).</p><p>ISBN: 978-1107654709</p><p>Cost: $25.99</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411741[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Grade: A</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s pretty clear that I like this series co-published by the ANS and Cambridge Universe Press.&nbsp; As the title states, this is a book about using coins as sources in History.&nbsp; So it is by no means a catalogue, but rather an entry point for scholars of the Roman Republic to incorporate numismatic evidence.&nbsp; As such, it does contain some general information on how coins were made and the minting process, and this particular volume gives an excellent summary at the end of available numismatic resources (many of which you all are probably already familiar with).</p><p><br /></p><p>This volume on the Roman Republic improves from the previous volume in being more cohesive, and providing the illustrations to the coins in line with when they were being discussed.&nbsp; Rarely did I have to jump back in the book to find an illustration, and I don’t recall any instance where I had to jump forward for a coin being discussed (as happened in some of the other volumes).&nbsp; Like the other volumes, the chapters are broken down into nice little chunks which can make it convenient for reading a bit before bed, but also for finding relevant information.&nbsp; The book is laid out thematically more so than chronologically, which might be my one complaint.&nbsp; However, a chronology is followed in each of the thematic areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for what is covered, there are four main chapters which have the alliterative titles of “Money, Monuments, Mutinies?, and Mobilization.”&nbsp; In practice, what this means is the first chapter covers the production of coins, why change in the money occurs, and how we use coins as evidence.&nbsp; The second chapter essentially covers the messaging used on the coins for celebrating Rome.&nbsp; The third contains messages of conflict, and the fourth messages meant to influence people.&nbsp; I’ll admit that the final three chapters melded a bit in my mind for their purpose, but I did only read bits and pieces over the course of a month.&nbsp; However, there were many fascinating little insights into events during Republican Rome and how they related to the coinage so much so that the book inspired a couple of purchases.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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