Edited by Martin Biddle with a catalogue of the known coins of the mint by Yvonne Harvey, this volume records and illustrates the minting of silver pennies in Winchester between the reigns of Alfred ...the Great and Henry III, a period of three and a half centuries. At the Mint, which was situated in the area of the High Street to the east of where the city’s cross now stands, at least 24 million silver pennies (possibly as many as 50 million) were struck. Five and a half thousand survive in museums and collections all over the world. These have been sought out and photographed (some 3200 coins in 6400 images detailing both sides), and minutely catalogued by Yvonne Harvey for this volume.
During the period from late in the reign of Alfred to the time of Henry III, dies for striking the coins were produced centrally under royal authority in the most sophisticated system of monetary control at the time in the western world. In this first account of a major English mint to have been made in forty years, a team of leading authorities have studied and analysed the use the Winchester moneyers made of the dies, and together with the size, weight, and the surviving number of coins from each pair of dies, have produced a detailed account of the varying fortunes of the mint over this period. Their results are critical for the economic history of England and the changing status of Winchester over this long period, and provide the richest available source for the history of the name of the city and the personal names of its citizens in the later Anglo-Saxon period.
In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th ...centuries AD. The volume brings together a combination of recent summaries and new work on silver and gold coinage, rings and bullion, which allow a better appreciation of the broader socioeconomic conditions of the Viking world. This is an indispensable source for all archaeologists, historians and numismatists involved in Viking Studies.
The big problem of small change Sargent, Thomas J; Sargent, Thomas J; Velde, François R
2001., 20140424, 2014, 2002, 2002-01-01, Volume:
12
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The Big Problem of Small Changeoffers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Two leading ...economists, Thomas Sargent and François Velde, examine the evolution of Western European economies through the lens of one of the classic problems of monetary history--the recurring scarcity and depreciation of small change. Through penetrating and clearly worded analysis, they tell the story of how monetary technologies, doctrines, and practices evolved from 1300 to 1850; of how the "standard formula" was devised to address an age-old dilemma without causing inflation.
One big problem had long plagued commodity money (that is, money literally worth its weight in gold): governments were hard-pressed to provide a steady supply of small change because of its high costs of production. The ensuing shortages hampered trade and, paradoxically, resulted in inflation and depreciation of small change. After centuries of technological progress that limited counterfeiting, in the nineteenth century governments replaced the small change in use until then with fiat money (money not literally equal to the value claimed for it)--ensuring a secure flow of small change. But this was not all. By solving this problem, suggest Sargent and Velde, modern European states laid the intellectual and practical basis for the diverse forms of money that make the world go round today.
This keenly argued, richly imaginative, and attractively illustrated study presents a comprehensive history and theory of small change. The authors skillfully convey the intuition that underlies their rigorous analysis. All those intrigued by monetary history will recognize this book for the standard that it is.
During construction work in the centre of Črnomelj in 2019, archaeologists
discovered a gold coin from the period of Late
Antiquity. This tremissis of the Roman emperor Anthemius was
minted in Rome ...467–472. It has two special features: a lower
weight than the average for tremisses, and grafitti on the reverse
of the coin. The great variety of the types and quantities of
the minted solidi of Anthemius is partially reflected in the hoard
finds discovered in Italy and northern Europe. In terms of the
published coins, it can be established that there are few single
finds of the coins of Anthemius, and among them tremisses are
especially rare.
Investigation of the distribution of single-coin finds outside and
inside the Empire has shown that tremisses of Anthemius are
very rare. The monetary circulation on the territory of presentday
Slovenia in the second half of the 5th century almost ceased,
and the small number of coins could well indicate a transition
to a barter system. Gold coins otherwise predominate in the circulation;
they must be connected, most probably, either to the
military or to the work of the provincial administration.
The intensification of discoveries made with metal detectors and, consequently, the appearance of an increasing number of coins without being associated with a very precise location, although many ...seem to
originate from archaeological contexts, creates difficulties in the recovery of historical information. Associating discoveries from metal detection with information related to findings with a clear archaeological context can be a solution in understanding certain phenomena that led to their deposition, loss, or concealment. Unfortunately, however, we do not always have clear numismatic and archaeological information, not even for those derived from older systematic research. Additionally, coins are often hard to locate in museum collections due to the challenges that collections have faced over time. Our initiative aims to recover and reconstruct, as much as possible, the numismatic information, localization, and context of monetary discoveries from Ocnița-Buridava. We also aim to integrate, as much as possible, the context of findings made in the region through metal detection. We believe that in this way, we can outline an overall picture of the monetary discoveries associated with the site at Ocnița-Buridava, discoveries of significant importance for understanding it.
Featured Cover Almheiri, Saeed; Ahmad, Ahmad A.L.; Le Droumaguet, Benjamin ...
Surface and interface analysis,
June 2021, 2021-06-00, 20210601, Volume:
53, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The cover image is based on the Research Article Spontaneous redox route for gold‐aryl film development of latent fingerprints on nickel coins by Ahmed A. Mohamed et al., ...https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.6941.
This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of Queen Elizabeth II, arranged in chronological order ...and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties. All decimal coinage since 1968 is listed in a separate volume, available as an independent publication.The catalogue includes up-to-date values for every coin, a beginner's guide to coin collecting, numismatic terms explained and historical information about each British coin, from our earliest (Celtic) coins, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins, the coins of the Plantagenet Kings, the Houses of Lancaster and York, the Tudors and Stuarts, to the more modern Milled coinage, minted for the first time in 1561 during the reign of Elizabeth I. From the earliest of times, coins have been used by states or monarchs to communicate with people; Coins of England is therefore not only a reference book for collectors, but a fascinating snapshot of British history, illuminating its economics, technology, art, politics and religion. As always, the content has been updated and improved throughout by the editors, with numerous new images and revisions of key sections.
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