Constantina Katsari is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester and a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society. Her publications include numerous articles and reviews on the Roman economy, comparative slavery and ancient identities, as well as three co-edited books: Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor (2005, co-edited with Stephen Mitchell), Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern (2008, co-edited with Enrico Dal Lago) and From Captivity to Freedom: Themes in Ancient and Modern Slavery (2008, co-edited with Enrico Dal Lago).

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• Framing the Roman monetary system: an introduction; 1. Statistics and numismatics; 2. Planning the financial policy of the Roman state; 3. Trimetallism and bimetallic laws; 4. The application of the quantity theory of money on third-century economics; 5. Roman monetary integration; 6. Micro-economies; 7. Metallism vs chartalism; Appendix 1. The inscription of Mylasa; Appendix 2. Excavation finds, coin hoards and museums bibliography.