Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. 1 The Classical City in an Age of Crisis, 180-305 1
5. 2 Civic Coins: Their Design, Production, and Use 12
6. 3 Local Coins and the Greek Notables 21
7. 4 Coins and Declarations of Political Values in the Roman World 31
8. 5 Greek Views of the Conquering and Triumphant Roman Emperor 38
9. 6 The Roman Emperor and the City Gods 52
10. 7 Images of Rome and the Polis 71
11. 8 Civic Coins and the Hellenic Notables' Response to Crisis 83
12. 9 Epilogue: Civic Politics Without Civic Coins, 284-363 95
13. APPENDIX 1 Active Civic Mints, 31 B.C.-A.D. 276 107
14. APPENDIX 2 Two Chronological Problems in the Reign of Valerian (253-60) 109
15. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 115
16. NOTES 123
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 211
18. INDEX 227
19. LIST OF PLATES 241
20. PLATES 255