Coins and Money - Ancient Coinage

Argentarii - Roman Money Changers - Argentarium
Argentarii were the Roman equivalent of the Greek trapezitoi who were private bankers

A Comparative Chronology of Money
From cows in 9000 B.C. to Cappadocian guarantee on the value of silver ingots in 2250 B.C. through to Augustus Caesar's imposition of sales, poll, and land taxes.

Evidence for Pre-Lydian Coin and Currency
Instead of Lydia in Asia Minor in the second half of the seventh century B.C., Morris Silver finds second and third millennia evidence in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Financing Civilization
First chapter of a book by William N. Goetzmann about financing and how it has been a tool for both control and enterprise, a hindrance to and an aid to government.

Greek Coinage and Measures
By Dr. Kenneth W. Harl, a page full of information on Ancient Greek weights, measures and coinage. Other topics include: Ptolemaic regulation of imported coins, emergency bronze coins, and revenues of the king of Persia.

Roman Imperial Coins
Calgary Coin Gallery's collection of coins from the reign of Augustus to Domitian, from 27 B.C. to A.D. 96.

Tokens: the origin of mathematics
With tokens (used from 8000 B.C.) merchants could record promised as well as past transactions. Actual tokens gave way to imprints.

Trade and Barter in Ancient Greece
By William Harris. The mythology of commerce and defaulting on debt. Interest condemned as magical. Goes all over the place -- fascinating.

Trade at Ugarit In The 13th Century BC
From Our World 1996, by Farras Abdelnour, Ugarit was a major trading city which suddenly disappeared around 1200 BC following an invasion by "the sea people."