Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte · Volume 11 (1961)
Feingehalt und Gewicht des römischen Denars. Bemerkungen zu Sture Bolin, State and Currency in the Roman Empire to 300 A.D
- pp. 43–51
- Article
- German
Abstract
Rarely has a publication been judged so differently as Sture Bolin's general survey of the monetary history of the Roman empire: the verdicts range from undisguised rejection to the epithet brilliant. The authors therefore test one particular question exactly, namely Bolin's theory that the denarius was originally a currency coin, from Nero's reform until Trajan a kind of credit coin, and afterwards again of full value. Bolin himself regretted that no analyses by modern methods were available to him; the determinations of fineness he used were in part more than a hundred years old, which weighs heavily when such refined statistics rest on them. Only denarii from hoards with a firm closing point were analysed, from Gauting, which closes in 114, and from Kempten, buried about 233.
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Kellner, Hans-Jörg / Specht, Walter: Feingehalt und Gewicht des römischen Denars. Bemerkungen zu Sture Bolin, State and Currency in the Roman Empire to 300 A.D. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 11 (1961), pp. 43–51.