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In the first part of Fides et Pecunia Numerata, I suggested that the full scale exploitation of the Spanish mines by Rome caused a fall in the relative value of silver as a commodity during the 2nd century BC. This explained for the most part the decrease in weight standards of the Roman bronze coinage between the end of the Second Punic War and the Social War, finally endorsed through the monetary reform of Octavian. Broad though the scope of that paper was, some major issues remained unresolved. One of these is the key question of the meaning of the X, XVI and □ marks of values that alternate for a few decades after c. We will argue here that the only possible explanation fully compatible with the observed data implies some instability with respect to the conversion rate between bronze and silver coinages. This will lead to the emergence of a suggested rationale behind the monetary history of the period that separates the Gracchan episode from the Sullan restoration. Silver and bronze coinages mark a dividing line within the Roman society, separating the silver-rich upper strata from the lower classes whose wealth and income was defined by bronze.

The monetary relationship between both coinages became a key battlefield within the power struggle between the two main factions fighting for the control of the Republic.

The collapse of the Roman heavy bronze coinage weight standards during the 3rd century BC is a well-known fact.

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Crawford to the years 280-270 BC, and some of the light series of the years 210-200 BC, the weight loss is over 90%.īetween the series following the Roman libra of 288 scruples’ standard (c. The Roman state initially experienced an obvious monetary panic as it lacked the means to fund its war effort after Trasimene and Cannae. In a matter of few years, its subsequent decisions affecting its coinage structure testify to a heightened awareness of what was at stake as far as the financial aspect of the war was concerned. Through the debasement of the bronze coinage, the recourse to a short-lived gold coinage and the establishment of a stable silver coinage, the Republic managed to raise additional resources and reduce its liabilities while improving its financial capacities. In doing so, it designed a monetary policy aimed at supporting a successful war economy.Large sprawling novels are better suited to revealing the masterly writing of Saul Bellow than short stories. That being said, this collection that spans a decade before publication (1984) is well worth reading. 4) of apology to a Miss Rose, a librarian at a New England college, for an unwarranted rude remark made to her many years ago by one Herschel Shawmut (p. Miss Rose said that he looked like an archaeologist in his cap, and he replied that she looked 'like something I just dug up' (p. The letter introduces subjects far beyond the scope of the apology. He is living in British Columbia to avoid being sued for a financial swindle perpetrated by his brother Philip.

An italicized 'Personal Note' infers that this draft letter is more of an apologia to unnamed readers rather than an apology to Miss Rose. The blurred and rambling letter implies that the narrator merely wants to listen to himself: 'The writing of this letter has been the occasion of important discoveries about myself' (p. What Kind of Day Did You Have (1984) is the story of Katrina Goliger, divorced, who is summoned to Buffalo from Evanston (Illinois) by her septuagenarian lover, Victor Wulpy, to share a plane ride back to Chicago. Victor is a 'world-class intellectual' (p. 63) and expert in art, modelled after Bellow's friend Harold Rosenberg. Victor is still a sexual player and has 'a silken scrotum that he might now and then.be touching, leading out the longest hairs' (p.

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