This is the first full study of early Hellenistic coinage to be published. It provides a history of
the coinage of Alexander the Great and his successors in the Near and Middle East, and of …

'Quantifying monetary production in Greco-Roman times: a general frame': to explain it in
just a few words, this topic was and is still but less at present, a matter of debate among …

In the third century BC, the Attalid dynasts of Pergamon in north-western Asia Minor were
relatively minor players in Hellenistic great-power politics. This all changed in 188 BC …

François de Callataÿ a magnificent coin portrait of Mithridates iii1 illustrates the jacket of the
last and posthumous book by the great numismatist otto Mørkholm, Early Hellenistic …

Money can take many forms, and has come into existence all over the world. Coinage, 1 by
contrast, was independently created on no more than two occasions in history—in the …

At its height, the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BCE) stretched from Egypt and the
Balkans to Central Asia and the Indus. How was this continental empire able to endure at …

Silver mining helped transform Athens from a quiet backwater ca. 600 BCE to a dominant
regional and naval power a little over a century later, but despite having large argentiferous …

The provincial coinage of the Roman Empire has proven to be a rich source for studying
civic experiences of Roman rule, but the coins struck outside Rome during the expansion of …

The remarkably high numbers of silver items (traded goods and coins) found around the
Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period, compared to the earlier periods, is inextricably …

In recent years interest in the economic history of Hellenistic Babylonia has been growing,
and rightly so. According to Herodotos, Babylonia was the second richest province (after …