Die Aufwertung des Jahres 301 n. Chr. und ihre epigraphische Dokumentation in Aphrodisias (Karien). Ein Beitrag zur tetrarchischen Währungspolitik.

Abstract

The official dossier of two edicts and an imperial letter concerning the currency revaluation of the 1st of September 301AD, which is preserved in a fragmentary inscription at Aphrodisias, is presented here in a new proposed reconstruction. Its connection with the Edict of Maximum Prices is discussed and that fixing of maximum market prices and payments is proofed to be a measure for preparing the currency revaluation which decreed the doubling of the value of all coins below the gold currency. This currency revaluation is discussed within the financial policy of the period of the tetrarchy and the currency manipulations since the later 3^rd c. AD.