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Title Late antique and early medieval Iberia. — Minting, state, and economy in the visigothic kingdom: from settlement in Aquitane through the first decade of the Muslim conquest of Spain
Creators Kurt Andrew
Collection Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция
Subjects Money — History. ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History ; EBSCO eBooks
Document type Other
File type PDF
Language English
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Record key on1146545409
Record create date 3/27/2020

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  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pre-Regal Visigothic Coinage
    • A. The Fifth-Century Kingdom in Gaul
    • B. The Kingdom in Spain, 507-c. 573
  • 2. The King’s Coinage: The Beginning and Development of the Regal Coinage (c. 573-c. 720)
    • A. The Transition to a Regal Coinage
    • B. Regal Coin Types
    • C. A Trimetallic System?
  • 3. The Activities of the Mints from c. 573- c. 720
    • A. The Operation of the Mints
    • B. The Record of Mint Output
    • C. The Organization of the Mints
    • D. Metrological and Metallurgical Standards of Visigothic Regal Tremisses
  • 4. Why Were Gold Coins Struck in the Visigothic Kingdom?
    • A. The Late Roman Context
    • B. Other Reasons for Minting
    • C. The Addition of Bronze to the Corpus
    • D. Visigothic Minting in the Context of Contemporary Monetary Systems
  • 5. The Royal Control of Visigothic Minting
    • A. Evidence of Royal Control
    • B. The Significance of Centralized Monetary Authority
  • 6. Coinage in Spain in the Aftermath of the Islamic Conquest
  • 7. Visigothic Currency in the Early Medieval Economy
    • A. The Other Side of the Coin
    • B. Use and Circulation of Currency in the Kingdom
    • C. Bronze Currency in Spain and its Mediterranean Context
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • Index
  • List of figures
    • Figure 1: Frequencies of Weights of Tremisses in the Name of Anastasius
    • Figure 2: Frequencies of Weights of Tremisses in the Name of Justin I
    • Figure 3: Frequencies of Weights of Tremisses in the Name of Justinian
    • Figure 4: Frequencies of Weights of Tremisses in the Name of Justin II
    • Figure 5: Frequencies of Weights of Pre-regal Tremisses Arranged by Attributed Mints or Minting Regions
    • Figure 6: Timeline of gold coin sets - estimated chronologies and metrological values
    • Figure 7: Proposed order of hoard contents related to Leovigild’s regal-name minting
    • Figure 8: Tremissis standards from averages immediately prior to and during Leovigild’s reign
    • Figure 9: Proposed chronology of the earliest Visigothic regal issues
    • Figure 10: Principal early facing-busts type forms297
    • Figure 11: Diagram of the patrimony’s divisions and the flow of proceeds into the fiscus
    • Figure 12: Difference in average regal tremissis weights between central and peripheral mints
    • Figure 13: Gold content of tremisses leading up to Leovigild’s facing-busts phase
    • Figure 14: Coinage within the kingdom’s political-economic system
    • Figure 15: Transitional dinar in Latin letters of 94H = 712-713 (ANS, currently catalogued as HSA 57.1255)
    • Figure 16: Bilingual dinar of 98H = 716-717 (ANS 1994.55.1)
    • Figure 17: Thulth (1/3 dinar) in Arabic of 102H = 720-721 (ANS 1917.215.3437)
    • Figure I.1: Weight and fineness measurements of Visigothic pre-regal tremisses at the ANS
    • Figure I.2: Comparison of intrinsic values between tremisses of Byzantine Spania, Constantinople and the Visigothic Kingdom
    • Figure I.3: Graph comparison of intrinsic values – tremisses of Byzantine Spania, Constantinople and the Visigothic Kingdom
    • Figure I.4: Map of gold mints in Visigothic Spain (c. 575 – c. 714)
    • Figure I.5: Schema of bust types of Visigothic regal tremisses
    • Figure I.6: Visigothic copper-alloy coins compared to tremisses
    • Figure I.7: Table of known regal mints
    • Figure I.8: Number of known mints from each reign
    • Figure I.9: Southern mints’ percentage of total corpus
    • Figure I.10: Individual mints’ percentage of total in southern-central Visigothic Spain
    • Figure I.11: Weight and fineness measurements by Lauris Olson of 377 Visigothic regal tremisses
    • Figure I.12: Averages of fineness and other measurements of gold coins at the ANS
    • Figure I.13: Frequencies of weights of Visigothic regal tremisses
    • Figure I.14: Average weights of tremisses at mints of diverse volumes of output
    • Figure I.15: Percentage of fineness in Visigothic tremisses of three major samples
    • Figure I.16: Average fineness of 238 tremisses tested using X-ray fluorescent spectrometry method
    • Figure I.17: Fineness of Visigothic pseudo-imperial tremisses, Visigothic regal tremisses, and early Muslim dinars in Spain
    • Plate I
    • Plate II
    • Plate III
    • Plate IV
    • Plate V
    • Tables of Regal Visigothic Tremisses Attributed to SeparateEngravers
    • Concordance of new ANS accession numbers for ex-HSA regal Visigothic tremisses

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