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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2334317, member: 44316"]Crawford wrote the standard work on Republican coins you hear about all the time. He also wrote another fascinating work "Coinage and Money under the Roman Republic" which is about Italy and the Mediterranean economy during the transition to Roman rule in each region. It has many (poor) photographs of coin types in each area just before and just after it was conquered by Rome. It was reviewed in NC in 1988 by Kinns who notes "He forces us to recognize that many series conventionally regarded as 'Greek' must in some sense be Roman." It was reviewed very critically by Buttrey in Classical Philology 84.1, January 1989 who demonstrated that there were very many unsupported assertions. He also noted the misleading title, because it Crawford's other work that covers Republican coins directly. CMRR only covers the effect on other systems of coinage when the Roman came (Often they left it pretty much as it was).</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it was wonderfully entertaining and erudite until I read Buttrey's review which demonstrates that the cited evidence does not always support the contentions. Nevertheless, it looks at the transition from local coinage to Roman coinage both in detail and globally in a way you will not find elsewhere. If you, like the original poster, like coins related to Rome but not usually considered Roman, you will enjoy Crawford's "Coinage and Money under the Roman Republic".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2334317, member: 44316"]Crawford wrote the standard work on Republican coins you hear about all the time. He also wrote another fascinating work "Coinage and Money under the Roman Republic" which is about Italy and the Mediterranean economy during the transition to Roman rule in each region. It has many (poor) photographs of coin types in each area just before and just after it was conquered by Rome. It was reviewed in NC in 1988 by Kinns who notes "He forces us to recognize that many series conventionally regarded as 'Greek' must in some sense be Roman." It was reviewed very critically by Buttrey in Classical Philology 84.1, January 1989 who demonstrated that there were very many unsupported assertions. He also noted the misleading title, because it Crawford's other work that covers Republican coins directly. CMRR only covers the effect on other systems of coinage when the Roman came (Often they left it pretty much as it was). I thought it was wonderfully entertaining and erudite until I read Buttrey's review which demonstrates that the cited evidence does not always support the contentions. Nevertheless, it looks at the transition from local coinage to Roman coinage both in detail and globally in a way you will not find elsewhere. If you, like the original poster, like coins related to Rome but not usually considered Roman, you will enjoy Crawford's "Coinage and Money under the Roman Republic".[/QUOTE]
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