Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson

by C. N. L. Brooke , B. H. I. Stewart , J. G. Pollard , T. R. Volk

• ISBN13: 9780521091336
• ISBN10: 0521091330
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Coins are one of the most abundant sources for our study of the past, yet their value as historical evidence is relatively neglected because of a general lack of knowledge of numismatic techniques. This volume of essays, offered by a circle of friends, colleagues and pupils working in Britain, Europe and North America, is intended to pay tribute to Philip Grierson's unique contribution to the study of numismatic method. A medievalist by training, through his wide-ranging interests in coins and coinage Grierson has commanded the respect of historians and numismatists of all periods for the originality and good sense of his prolific scholarship. More than any other living scholar, he has been responsible for making available an understanding of numismatic expertise to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Table of Contents

Thoughts on the beginnings of coinage

The life of obverse dies in the Hellenistic period

Roman coinage of the Cyrenaica, first century BC to first century AD

Roman imperial coin types and the formation of public opinion

Coin hoards and Roman coinage of the third century AD

Belgian finds of late fourth-century Roman bronze

The re-use of obsolete coins: the case of Roman imperial bronzes revived in the late fifth century

Interpreting the alloy of the Merovingian silver coinage

Carolingian gold coins from the Ilanz hoard

The novi denarii and forgery in the ninth century

On the rejection of good coin in Carolingian Europe

'lfred the Great's abandonment of the concept of periodic recoinage

King or Queen? An eleventh-century pfennig of Duisburg

Personal names on Norman coins of the eleventh century: an hypothesis

The Gornoslav hoard, the Emperor Frederick I, and the Monastery of Bachkovo

Coinages of Barcelona (1209 to 1222): the documentary evidence

Finds of English medieval coins in Schleswig-Holstein

Privy-marking and the trial of the pyx

Judicial documents relating to coin forgery

Mint organisation in the Burgundian Netherlands in the fifteenth century

Coinage in Andrew Halyburton's Ledger

Imitation in later medieval coinage: the influence of Scottish types abroad

Barter in fifteenth-century Genoa

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