PUBLICATIONS
Yannis P. TOURATSOGLOU, A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA (6th-3rd CENTURY BC)
Our knowledge regarding the character and the specific features of the economy of the Macedonian kingdom from the second half of the 6th century BC to the early 3rd century BC comes limited in quantity, spread over several ancient literary…
Katerini Liampi, Argilos. A Historical and Numismatic Study, Kerma 1, Athens 2005.
The monograph Argilos. A Historical and Numismatic Study, inaugurating the series KERMA, presents for the first time the political and economic history of ancient Argilos. The city was a colony of settlers from the island of Andros and it was founded…
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Numismatic History and Economy in Epirus during Antiquity (University of Ioannina, October 3rd – 7th 2007), KERMA 3, p. 663 + plates
The volume in hand presents the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference. Numismatic History and Economy in Epirus during Antiquity. The work is the fruitful outcome of excellent collaboration between the University of Ioannina, the 12th Ephorate of Prehistoric and…
ECONOMIC HISTORY
Money in Dante’s Inferno
An eminent poet and also a highly political being, Dante Alighieri was born around 1265 at Florence and died in exile at Ravenna in 1321. He lived the upheaval of his era which was defined in Italy by the rivalry…
Century of trade, Tasos Leivaditis
Offer and demand regulate society, said my big brother Marx. A small, immoral trade every gesture, every word, and even your deepest thought, big talk at the street corners, the orators like the lottery ticket sellers advertising dreams for future…
NUMISMATICS
The first coins in the territory of Rus’ (9th-11th century)
The archaeological evidence attests the existence of Byzantine coins in the territory of the Rus as early as the 9th century. However they started to appear regularly from the last quarter of the 10th century. The found coins are gold,…
Silver Jewish shekel, First Revolt against Rome, AD 70
In the year AD 66, while Nero was still reigning, a revolt broke up in Judaea instigated by the act of the procurator Gessius Florus to appropriate seventeen talents from Solomon’s Temple. Added discontent towards Roman administration for insulting attitude…
Siege coin of Mantova, 1799
April 1796. Napoleon Bonaparte, then a rather unknown French general, invades North Italy in charge of an army of scruffy and tattered soldiers. After a month Milan was occupied and in less than two Mantova (Mantua) was laid under siege….