From Coins to History: Selected Numismatic Studies

by Harold B. Mattingly

Overview

Harold B. Mattingly has always helped direct numismatic and epigraphical studies, and his work has often sought and defended unorthodox positions in the fields of numismatics and epigraphy. Here is a collection of his numismatic papers, with short introductions written by the author, revisiting his arguments. Gathered into an easily accessible volume, this collection of essays ranges over the field of Greek and Roman coinage, presenting a series of papers that helped change our interpretations of numismatic evidence. Because many of these papers are hard to find, collecting them in one volume will be of particular use to libraries, graduate students, and scholars.
Harold B. Mattingly is a retired Professor of Ancient History at Leeds University, and current president of the Royal Numismatic Society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472113316
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	12/11/2003
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Harold B. Mattingly has been a lecturer and reader in Ancient History at Nottingham University, and Professor of Ancient History at Leeds University. Since 1999 he has been President of the Royal Numismatic Society. He lives and works in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
1.	The Damareteion Controversy: A New Approach	2
2.	A New Light on the Early Silver Coinage of Teos	16
3.	New Light on the Athenian Standards Decree	24
4.	The Beginning of Athenian New Style Silver Coinage	30
5.	The Coinage of Mithradates III, Pharnakes, and Mithradates IV of Pontos	44
6.	The Second-Century B.C. Seleucid Countermarks: Anchor and Facing Helios Head	52
7.	Some Problems in Second-Century Attic Prosopography	59
8.	Some Third Magistrates in the Athenian New Style Silver Coinage	85
9.	The Roma/Victory Romano Didrachms and the Start of Roman Coinage	100
10.	The Numismatic Evidence and the Founding of Narbo Martius	130
11.	L. Julius Caesar, Governor of Macedonia	152
12.	C. Verres and the Pirates	177
13.	Roman Republican Coinage, ca. 150-90 B.C.	199
14.	The Management of the Roman Republican Mint	227
15.	Coinage and the Roman State	260
16.	The Mesagne Hoard and the Coinage of the Late Republic	280
17.	Money for an Empire: The Julio-Claudian Experiment	293
	Index	305