La Monnaie dans l'Antiquité, tome III

The third volume turns to mint organization, the movement of coinage, and historical changes in monetary authority. It brings together evidence from coins, texts, and political history to explain where and why issues circulated. Researchers can use it to study the historiography of minting rights, monetary unions, and interregional circulation, and to locate early discussions of problems later reframed through hoards and archaeology.

The work predates modern archaeology, scientific metal analysis, and most systematic hoard publication. Treat its absolute dates, diffusion models, weight-standard genealogies, and historical narratives as evidence for nineteenth-century scholarship, and test them against current numismatic and economic research.