ANCIENT COINS - 2012 PICARD et al. - LES MONNAYAGES DE BRONZE A ALEXANDRIE NEU

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Olivier Picard / Cécile Bresc / Thomas Faucher / Gilles Gorre / Marie-Christine Marcellesi / Cécile Morrisson

Les monnaies de fouilles du Centre d'Études Alexandrines
Les monnayages de bronze à Alexandrie de la conquête d'Alexandre à l'Égypte moderne

Alexandrie 2012 (Études Alexandrines 25). 475 pp, 47 plates

Hardback. New

This publication of 3527 coins found in the excavations of the Centre d'Études Alexandrines studies the production of the Alexandrian mint from its establishment by Ptolemy I, as well as the different forms of bronze coinage used up until the modern era.
The often very damaged state of the pieces has led to a defining of the most significant criteria for identifying individual coins. It has been noted that using a classification by reign of the Ptolemies does not correspond with monetary history and that it is more important to identify the value of the pieces in use.
The use of money in Egypt is marked by certain original practices: the closure of the market to foreign monies occurred under the Ptolemies, was retained under the Roman empire and reappeared in the Byzantine period. In addition, the sharp rise in papyrus prices, often interpreted as part of an inflationary event, can be reconsidered in the light of an analysis of coin manufacture

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