Coinage and City Life. A synthesis of the conferences at the 5th Course of Monetary History in Spain (November 29th and 30th, 2001). Coinage and City Life, through which we see how in the ancient world the development of coinage was closely linked to city life. The authorities who governed and administered the cities found in coinage an ideal way of dealing with payments, collecting taxes or fixing the prices of goods, services, fines, etc. In these articles the function of coinage in Hispanic cities is reviewed, from its beginnings up to the imperial age. It begins by considering coinage in the Greek poleis and the colonies of Emporion and Rhode, which marked the beginning of the use of struck metal on the Iberian Peninsula, to close with the analysis of coinage finds in cities from the imperial age, passing through the phase of Phoenician-Punic colonization and that of the foundation of the first Roman cities on the Peninsula