Abstract
Summary. — The article presents and discusses two recent books on the function of coinage in ancient Greece (S. von Reden, Exchange in Ancient Greece, London, 1995 and L. Kurke, Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold. The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece, Princeton, 1999). Both explore the anthropological approach initiated by B. Laum and E. Will. The emphasis is more social with von Reden, more political with Kurke. Both are thought-provoking though unsatisfactory from a numismatic point of view. Note is taken of the constraints imposed by the amount of coinage preserved and of the way the two authors deal with - or do not deal with - theories advanced so far.
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