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List of plates List of figures List of tables Preface Abbreviations Part I. The Economics of Empire: 1. Surplus and deficit 2. Money, prices and inflation 3. The imperial budget 4. Tax and tax-cycles Part II. The Coin-Evidence: 5. Coin-hoards and their origin 6. The implications of coin-hoards Part III. Money and Money-Supply: 7. Coinage and currency: an overview 8. The chronology of mint-output 9. Reign-studies: the chronology and structure of coin-output 10. The size of die-populations 11. The size of coin-populations 12. Mobility and immobility of coin 13. Weight-loss and circulation-speed 14. Wastage and reminting of coin 15. Change and deterioration 16. Contrast and variation in the coinage Appendices: 1. Payments of congiaria 2. The chronology of minting under Tiberius 3. Variations in land-tax in Egypt 4. Assessments of tax-revenue in the sources 5. Tax comparisons with Mughal India 6. Hoards below the sampling threshold 7. Rates of donative 8. Programs for finding negative binomial k and for estimating die-populations 9. Die-productivity in medieval evidence 10. Aureus and denarius hoards used in the main anlaysis Bibliography Index.
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