Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1250: Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald

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Author: Johann Cook

ISBN-10: 9004147772

ISBN-13: 9789004147775

Category: Ancient & Byzantine Coins

This is a themed volume of 28 papers, written in honour of Marion Archibald. It considers the role of coinage in northern Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the early thirteenth century. Although the focus of the volume is the coinage itself, the majority of the papers consider coinage in its historical and/or archaeological context.\ A recurrent theme of the volume is the movement of coinage across the English Channel and the North Sea and beyond. Particular areas of focus...

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This themed volume contains 28 papers by leading authorities on numismatics and monetary history. It covers a variety of topics concerning the design, use and circulation of coinage in northern Europe in the late fifth to early thirteenth centuries.

Marion Archibald : an appreciation5A catalogue of hoards and single finds from the British Isles c. A.D. 410-67511After patching : imported and recycled coinage in fifth- and sixth century Britain75Roman bronze coinage in sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon England99Twenty-two soldiers, a goddess and an emperor : a small group of sixth-century pseudo-imperial tremisses with an unusual reverse type111Two new types of Anglo-Saxon gold shillings127A pale gold thrymsa in the name of Vanimundus141The circulation and function of coinage in conversion-period England, c. A.D. 580-675145Imitation in the sincerest form of flattery193Contrasts and continuity within the coinage of Northumbria, c. 670-867211Between the devil and the deep blue sea : hoards in ninth-century Frisia241Anglo-Saxon coin brooches267A coin of AEthelwulf of Wessex from ancient Truso in Poland287'Not the oldest known list' : Scandinavian moneyers' names on the tenth-century English coinage297The pre-reform coinage of Edgar - the legacy of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms325Inflows of Anglo-Saxon and German coins into the Northern lands c. 997-1004 : discerning the patterns349The import of English coins to the Northern lands : some remarks on coin circulation in the Viking Age based on new evidence from Denmark389The 1954 Rone hoard and some comments on styles and inscriptions of certain Scandinavian coins from the early eleventh century435Silver-handling traditions during the Viking Age - some observations and thoughts on the phenomenon of pecking and bending449Anglo-Saxon coins in the Baltic East - some comments on two recent volumes of the Sylloge of coins of the British Isles467Two hards of short-cross sterlings from Ribe, and English merchants in Denmark in the middle of the thirteenth century477The volume of the English currency, c. 973-1158487Coinage and urban development : integrating the archaeological and numismatic history of Lincoln525The moneyers of the Worcester mint, 1066-1158 : some thoughts and comments545The earliest English lead tokens?589Henry II, the St. Augustine's dispute and the loss of the abbey's mint franchise601En monnaye aiant cours : the monetary system of the Angevin empire617Iles Anglo-Normandes : some coin evidence for the impact of the events of 1204 on the Channel Islands687Few and far between : mints and coins in Wales to the middle of the thirteenth century701The publications of Marion Archibald to 2005721