Army and Coinage in the late Republic

The role of the Roman military system in the spread of Roman coinage in Italy in the third century BC is clear. What is much less clear is the range of mechanisms by which Italy continued - or did not continue - to be supplied with coinage in the second and first centuries; it is these mechanisms that I should like to discuss. But first a word about the third century, largely to draw attention to a book whose unassuming exterior conceals its true importance. Andrew Burnett has there drawn att...