The purpose of the "Aegeum" series is to shed light on the Roman
conquest of the Greek East from an economic viewpoint. The first volume
of the series, edited by Richard Ashton and Nathan Badoud, is the result
of collaborative? research into the coinages of the 2nd and 1st
centuries B.C. Its ten contributions allow us to uncover how the Romans
gained control over the economic resources of the Greek cities, and to
follow the gradual emergence of the denarius as the dominant silver
coinage of the Aegean region. More generally, they advance our
understanding of how the ancient economy functioned, and mark an
important methodological advance in the analysis of the coinages of the
Hellenistic period.