Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

Clare Rowan is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. Her previous books, Under Divine Auspices: Divine Ideology and the Visualisation of Imperial Power (Cambridge, 2013) and From Caesar to Augustus: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge, 2018), have demonstrated the enormous potential of coin evidence for understanding the Roman world. She held a European Research Starting Grant from 2016-2021, Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, and this volume represents the findings of this work. She is currently the ancient editor for the Numismatic Chronicle.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Tokens and the Imperial family; 3. Creating identities in Rome, Ostia and Italy; 4. Cult, euergetism and the imagery of festivals; 5. Tokens, finds, and small-scale economies; 6. Conclusion: Tokens and the history of Roman Imperial Italy.

'… this book is a leap forward in the study of tokens and will be valuable not only for established scholars working on portable material culture, but also for postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates, especially those looking to engage with a wider range of Roman material culture.' Summer Courts, Bryn Mawr Classical Review