The Socio-cultural Research On Roman Coins

The purpose of this article from the socio-cultural perspective on the sources of Roman coinage, the style characteristics of each phase, the reasons for change and the impact of time and the role of Roman society to do a systematic exposition. In the early days of Rome frugal life, advocating the poor, money is not yet a rigorous system of Rome still can not produce a major impact too. However, with the Rome and expansion of large-scale field expeditions, especially in the mid-2nd century B.C., Rome became an across Europe, Asia, and Africa's great empires, the situation changed. The Romans became to pursue the luxury and pleasure, generals have greater power to pursue, the role of money more and more obvious, the establishment of a standard set of increasingly urgent need for currency. Roman coinage as an important part of Roman civilization, are subject to outside influences, especially the Greek coins, but it does not simply imitate them, but according to their ethnic and religious traditions, economic and political characteristics of the formation of its own unique coin style. Roman coinage in the history of the development of Western coinage plays a role of linking the role of that, with its unique charm of the Byzantine coinage, and even the Middle Ages, the Renaissance had a profound impact. Coinage of Rome, the study will help us from a deeper level of understanding of Rome's socio-economic, political, cultural, as well as the daily life of Romans and so on.This article first examines the basic situation of the Roman coinage were coinage of Rome, the source of a specific historical stage of the various currency coinage, currency reform and changes in the graph illustrated in detail, and the characteristics of the various stages of interpretation. Then, the system from the cultural, political, economic and other three Roman coinage to explore the reasons for change. Finally, cultural, political, and economic analysis of three aspects, discusses the Roman coinage on the Roman society and culture of future generations.