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Record Nr.

UNINA9910854199203321

Autore

Biddle Martin

Titolo

The Winchester Mint and Coins and Related Finds from the Excavations of 1961-71 / Martin Biddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , 2024

ISBN

9781803270135

1803270136

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (768 p.)

Collana

Winchester Studies ; ; v.8

Disciplina

737.409422735

Soggetti

History / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066)

Antiques & Collectibles / Coins, Currency & Medals

Collectibles

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- General Editor's Preface to the 2023 Reprinted and Open Access Edition -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- YVONNE HARVEY'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART I: THE WINCHESTER MINT -- 1. MINTING IN WINCHESTER -- 2. THE WINCHESTER MINT -- 3. THE NAMES OF THE MONEYERS OF THE WINCHESTER MINT -- 4. THE PLACE-NAME 'WINCHESTER' -- 5. CATALOGUE AND DIE-ANALYSIS OF THE WINCHESTER MINT-SIGNED COINS -- 6. INDEXES OF MONEYERS, DIE-LINKS, HOARDS, AND OTHER FINDS, AND LISTS OF COLLECTIONS AND PROVENANCES -- PART I I: COINS AND RELATED FINDS FROM THE WINCHESTER EXCAVATIONS OF 1961-71 -- INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- 1. THE ANGLO-SAXON AND LATER COINS -- 2. JETTONS AND TOKENS -- 3. THREE REPOUSSE´ FOILS IMITATING ARABIC COINS -- 4. LEAD TOKENS AND RELATED ITEMS -- 5. BYZANTINE AND EASTERN FINDS FROM WINCHESTER -- 6. BYZANTINE COINS -- 7. BYZANTINE SEALS -- 8. BYZANTINE INTAGLIO -- 9. PAPAL BULLAE -- 10. KUFIC COIN -- 11. A JEWISH COUNTER OR TOKEN -- 12. LEAD SEAL, POSSIBLY OF HENRY I -- 13. THE CONTEXTS OF THE COINS.

Sommario/riassunto

Edited by Martin Biddle with a catalogue of the known coins of the mint



by Yvonne Harvey, this volume records and illustrates the minting of silver pennies in Winchester between the reigns of Alfred the Great and Henry III, a period of three and a half centuries. At the Mint, which was situated in the area of the High Street to the east of where the city's cross now stands, at least 24 million silver pennies (possibly as many as 50 million) were struck. Five and a half thousand survive in museums and collections all over the world. These have been sought out and photographed (some 3200 coins in 6400 images detailing both sides), and minutely catalogued by Yvonne Harvey for this volume. During the period from late in the reign of Alfred to the time of Henry III, dies for striking the coins were produced centrally under royal authority in the most sophisticated system of monetary control at the time in the western world. In this first account of a major English mint to have been made in forty years, a team of leading authorities have studied and analysed the use the Winchester moneyers made of the dies, and together with the size, weight, and the surviving number of coins from each pair of dies, have produced a detailed account of the varying fortunes of the mint over this period. Their results are critical for the economic history of England and the changing status of Winchester over this long period, and provide the richest available source for the history of the name of the city and the personal names of its citizens in the later Anglo-Saxon period.