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Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 1
Two Decades of Discovery
Edited by Tony Abramson

Recent years have seen increasing interest being taken by both scholars and enthusiasts in the remarkable iconography of early Anglo-Saxon coinage. During this period there was a remarkable diversity of intentionally ambiguous imagery conflating the various traditions then extant in England, and indeed the sheer quantity of types produced in post-Roman Britain prior to the establishment of a clear political hierarchy has often been regarded as a daunting hurdle for scholarly research. Although this wealth of material has long been available, recent advances in both discovery techniques and classification systems have seen a renewal of interest in these largely neglected artefacts. This volume draws upon these advances to establish a new benchmark for the study of coin typologies. Going beyond the traditional studies of moneyers, mint marks and monarchs, these essays draw upon the imagery present upon the coins themselves to offer new insights into Anglo-Saxon art and society.

 

DETAILS

200 b/w illustrations

Size: 23.4 x 15.6
10 digit ISBN: 1843833719
13 digit ISBN: 9781843833710
Binding: Paperback
First published: 15/May/2008
Price: 80.00 USD / 40.00 GBP
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Early Medieval Coinage
Subject: Numismatics

BIC class: HBCR

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 03/07/2008

Contents
   Introduction
Tony Abramson
1   Twenty-one Years of progress
Michael David Metcalf
2   Series Q: The Archaeological Perspective
John Andrew Newman
3   Thrysses, Sceattas and the Cult of the Cross
Ian Nicholas Wood
4   Some New Types
Tony Abramson
5   Series K and L
Anna Gannon
6   Series X and Coin Circulation in Ribe
Claus Feveile
7   The 2006 Symposium and Beyond
Mark Blackburn
8   The Sceattas of Series D
Wybrand Op den Velde
9   Sceattas from a site in Essex
Michael Bonser
10   Orthographical Standardisation
Philip A. Shaw
11   Fifty Years after Dunning
Richard Hodges
12   The Beowulf Collection
13   The Patrick Finn Sceatta Index

 

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