Cover -- Ancient History from Coins -- Copyright -- Contents -- Plates -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Money -- THE HISTORY OF COINAGE -- WHAT DIFFERENCE DID HAVING A COINAGE MAKE? -- USE OF COINAGE: ATHENS -- USE OF COINAGE: ROME -- Chapter 2 Minting -- WHERE DID THE METALS COME FROM? -- WHAT IS A MINT? -- HOW LARGE WERE ISSUES? -- WHY WERE COINS STRUCK? -- COINAGE AND STATE EXPENDITURE -- Chapter 3 Empires -- COINAGE AND IMPERIALISM -- ATHENS -- PERSIA -- PHILIP II AND ALEXANDER -- SELEUCIDS -- PTOLEMIES -- ATTALIDS -- ROME -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4 Politics -- COIN TYPES AND POLITICS -- PATTERNS OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION: GREECE -- PATTERNS OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION: ROME -- CHOICE AND INTENTION -- AUDIENCE AND RECEPTION -- IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE -- THEMES OF POWER -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 Circulation -- THE EVIDENCE AND ITS LIMITATIONS -- REASONS FOR THE MOVEMENT OF COIN -- ARCHAIC PERIOD -- LATE CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC PERIODS -- ROMAN PERIOD -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 Crisis -- CRISIS AT ATHENS AND ROME -- COINAGE UNDER PRESSURE {EXCLUDING ROME} -- REASONS FOR MONETARY MANIPULATIONS IN THE ROMAN WORLD -- CAUSES OF INFLATION -- THE THIRD-CENTURY CRISIS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Key to plates -- Index.