Coinage as commodity and bullion in the western Mediterranean, ca. 550–100 BCE.
This article traces the effect of the entangled network of relations between the eastern and western Mediterranean on the introduction and development of coinage in the west. Particular focus is given to the role of Athenian owls and Corinthian-style pegasi within Sicily and Magna Graecia. Coinages...
| Publicado en: | Mediterranean Historical Review Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 105 - 128 |
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