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Dark Age Numismatics by Philip Grierson (Hardback, 1979)

by Philip Grierson

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1979 Variorum hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. Contents: I. Problemi monetari dell'alto medio evo; II. Commerce in the Dark Ages: a critique of the evidence; III. Carolingian Europe and the Arabs: the myth of the mancus; IV. The Tablettes Albertini and the value of the solidus in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.; V. Una moneta d'argento inedita di Teodorico il Grande; VI. The Canterbury (St. Martin's) hoard of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon coin-ornaments; VII. A new Anglo-Saxon solidus; VIII. The authenticity of the York 'thrymsas'; IX. The purpose of the Sutton Hoo coins; X. The Sutton Hoo coins again; XI. La fonction sociale de la monnaie en Angleterre aux VIIe-VIIIe siecles; XII. Visigothic metrology; XIII. A tremissis of the Suevic king Audeca (584-5); XIV. The silver coinage of the Lombards; XV. The monetary reforms of 'Abd al-Malik: their metrological basis and their financial repercussions; XVI. La trouvaille monetaire d'Ilanz; XVII. Cronologia delle riforme monetarie di Carlo Magno; XVIII. Money and coinage under Charlemagne; XIX. The monogram of Charlemagne in Greek; XX. The coronation of Charlemagne and the coinage of Pope Leo III; XXI. Zum Ursprung der karolingischen Goldpragung in Nordwest-Europa; XXII. The gold solidus of Louis the Pious and its imitations; XXIII. La date des monnaies d'or de Louis le Pieux; XXIV. Le sou d'or d'Uzes; XXV. Mint output in the time of Offa; XXVI. Some aspects of the coinage of Offa; XXVII.

  • Year: 1979
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0860780414
  • Condition: Fair

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