Medieval European Coinage: Volume 1, The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries)

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Cambridge University Press, 1986 - 704 pages
This, the first volume of Medieval European Coinage, surveys the coinage of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century to the emergence of recognizable 'national' political units in the tenth. It starts with the Vandals, Visigoths, Burgundians and other Germanic invaders of the Empire, whose coins were modelled on contemporary issues of the Western or Eastern emperors. The coinage of the Franks is followed from early Merovingian times through to the establishment and subsequent fragmentation of the Carolingian empire. Italy is represented by the coinages of the Ostrogoths, Lombards, Carolingians and popes down to the Ottoman conquest in the mid-tenth century. The coinage of the Anglo-Saxons is traced from the introduction of minting in the early seventh century to the emergence of a united kingdom during the first half of the tenth century, including the aberrant coinages of Northumbria and the Anglo-Viking coinages of the Danelaw.
 

Contents

a General features and background
24
THE VISIGOTHS
41
S THE LOMBARDS
55
MINOR GERMANIC PEOPLES
74
A General features
81
b Phases of the coinage
90
c Minting organization
97
National gold coinage c 570580c 670
117
Formation of the collections
393
Collectors dealers and donors
399
Arrangement of the catalogue
415
6
475
24
484
33
491
44
498
49
516

III
133
Silver coinage c 670c 750
144
SIXTHMID EIGHTH CENTURIES
155
THE CAROLINGIANS
206
a General features
267
APPENDICES
326
Forgeries of early medieval coins
332
BIBLIOGRAPHY
339
b Pepin the Short 75168
371
c Charles the Great Charlemagne 768814
520
55
532
62
572
d Louis the Pious 81440
625
Notes on the coins
631
Concordances
647
INDEXES
653
211
658
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