Why Coinage?
ANS Summer Seminar: van Alfen
(Also see Greek Numismatics Bibliography for related books and articles)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics V, v, 10-16 (1133a-b) (TN 11)
Aristotle, Magna Moralia I, xxxiii, 12 (1194a) (TN 12)
Aristotle, Politics I, ii, 12-17 (1257a) (TN 13)
Kroll, J.H. 1998. Silver in Solon’s laws. In: R. Ashton and S. Hurter, eds., Studies in Greek Numismatics in Memory of Martin Jessop Price, pp. 225-232 (London).
Kroll, J.H. 2001. Observations on monetary instruments in pre-coinage Greece. In: M. Balmuth, ed., Hacksilber to coinage: new insights into the monetary history of the Near East and Greece. ANS Numismatic Studies no. 24, pp. 77-91(New York).
Kurke, L. 1999. Coins, bodies, games and gold: the politics of meaning in Archaic Greece (Princeton 1999) (read Introduction to p. 23, and J. Kroll’s review, CJ 96 [2000], 85-90).
Kurke, L. 2002. Money and mythic history: the contestation of transaction orders in the fifth century BC. In: W. Scheidel and S. von Reden, eds. The Ancient Economy, pp. 87-113. (Routledge).
Le Rider, G. 2001. La naissance de la monnaie: pratiques monétaires de l’Orient ancien (Paris 2001) (read chp. II, and review by J. Kroll, RSN 80 [2001], 199-206).
Peacock, M.S. 2006. The origins of money in Ancient Greece: the political economy of coinage and exchange. Cambridge Journal of Economics 30: 637-650.
Schaps, D. 2004. The invention of coinage and the monetization of Ancient Greece (Ann Arbor) (read chps. 7, 8, 14).
Seaford, R. 2004. Money and the early Greek mind: Homer, philosophy, tragedy (Cambridge) (read chps. 6, 7).
Thompson, C. 2003. Sealed silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the “invention” of coinage. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22.1: 67-107.
von Reden, S. 1997. Money, law and exchange: coinage in the Greek polis,” JHS 117: 154-76.
Wallace, R. 1987. The origin of electrum coinage. AJA 91: 385-397.
Wray, L.R. 2004. Conclusion: the credit money and state money approaches. In: L.R. Wray, ed. Credit and state money theories of money: the contributions of A. Mitchell Innes, pp. 223-262 (Northhampton, MA).