"The Power of Money is a brilliant and highly original piece of scholarship on a group of inscriptions about which much has been written and whose interpretation is crucial for our understanding of the way in which Athens ruled her empire."--Martin Ostwald, Swarthmore College.

The coinage of Greek Naples is examined from the beginning of minting, perhaps in the 460s BCE, to the early third century. Particular attention is given to the iconography that appears on Neapolitan coins and its relationships to local history, cults, and identity

Like coinage, bullion, financial instruments and a variety of commodities played an important role in Rome's monetary system. This book examines how the availability of such assets affected the demand for coinage and the development of the late Republican economy.