Absent Coinage: Archaeological Contexts and Tremisses on the Central Iberian Peninsula in the 7th and 8th Centuries AD, Medieval Archaeology Volume 60, Issue 1, 2016, pp. 27-56, DOI:10.1080/00766097.2016.1147784 (original) (raw)
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EDIZIONI QUASAR e s t r a t t o Giacomo Pardini, Nicola Parise, Flavia Marani (a cura di), Numismatica e archeologia. Monete, stratigrafie e contesti. Dati a confronto. Workshop Internazionale di Numismatica (WIN) ISBN 978-88-7140-809-5 (seconda edizione) © Roma 2018, Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon srl via Ajaccio, 43 -00198 Roma -tel. 0685358444 fax 0685833591 e-mail: qn@edizioniquasar.it -www.edizioniquasar.it Volume stampato con il contributo di Progetto grafico della copertina Mirella Serlorenzi, Federica Lamonaca, Cecilia Parolini, Giacomo Pardini, Massimo Cibelli Progetto grafico e impaginazione Marco Tortelli Ottimizzazione Massimo Cibelli
The Journal of Archaeological Numismatic 5 (Les trouvailles de monnaies de bronzes romains en contexte médiéval), Bruselas, 2015
This paper addresses the issue of Visigothic copper coins and presents an overview of the current state of our knowledge, challenging a number of ideas that are currently accepted, despite the lack of evidence. The paper revisits typologies and proposes a revised chronology. Similarly, these nummi are presented within the wider framework of coin issues in other Germanic kingdoms, thus illustrating the parallels and differences between them. Finally, the nature of these monetary issues is examined, and a distinction is made between those backed by royal and municipal authorities, including the unofficial issues fostered by the latter.
Visigothic Currency in its Making and Movement: A Varying State of Circumstances
Visigothic Symposium 3, 2019
Consideration of coins in movement in and outside of the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia requires us to take into view not only the evidence of currency circulation itself, but also the many factors related to minting, including the rationale for issuing coin and how and why it might be distributed. In this article, the layout of the mint network, with its temporal and spatial and quantitative variables, leads to analysis of the state's need for gold currency. Lines of inquiry along administrative and commercial aspects show different forces at work with respect to the gold tremisses issued widely across the kingdom from Liuvigild's day. The state can be seen to have its own purpose in creating coin, but circulation and use were far from tied to a closed circuit revolving around taxation paid ultimately in gold currency by aristocrats. Copper-based currency in several forms and from various sources ran parallel to the 'regal' gold, though its circulation was more restricted on the whole and had a mostly separate use. Here the evidence on these matters and their implications are explored.
Visigothic Symposia 3, 2019
Consideration of coins in movement in and outside of the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia requires us to take into view not only the evidence of currency circulation itself, but also the many factors related to minting, including the rationale for issuing coin and how and why it might be distributed. In this article, the layout of the mint network, with its temporal and spatial and quantitative variables, leads to analysis of the state's need for gold currency. Lines of inquiry along administrative and commercial aspects show different forces at work with respect to the gold tremisses issued widely across the kingdom from Liuvigild's day. The state can be seen to have its own purpose in creating coin, but circulation and use were far from tied to a closed circuit revolving around taxation paid ultimately in gold currency by aristocrats. Copper-based currency in several forms and from various sources ran parallel to the 'regal' gold, though its circulation was more restricted on the whole and had a mostly separate use. Here the evidence on these matters and their implications are explored.
The treasure of Guarrazar : Tracing the gold supplies in the Visigothic Iberian peninsula
The treasure of Guarrazar, found in the 19th century in Spain, is the most important illustration of the high level of Visigothic jewellery in the Iberian Peninsula. The votive crowns and crosses of this treasure are an arrangement of pierced gold in a Byzantine–Germanic style, decorated with emeralds, garnets, sapphires and other materials. In order to establish the provenance of the gold, we analysed a group of 46 minute samples from the most important pieces kept in Spain for major and trace elements. The combination of PIXE and PIGE with an external 3 MeV proton µ-beam was used to analyse the samples. Considering the gold sources cited by Pliny the Elder and the composition of contemporary Visigothic coins, we suggest the exploitation of south Iberian mines. Using the same set-up, we complemented these results with the analysis of 11 emeralds inlaid in items from the Guarrazar jewellery that is kept in France. We suggest the use of European sources unknown to the Romans for these gemstones.
ISBN 978 1 4073 0997 2 Cover coin: RPC1 172, Obv: AVGVSTVS DIVI F, bare gead, r.; Rev: C LAETILIVS APALVS II V Q, diadem (with crescent and lotus above) enclosing REX PTOL. The Trustess of the British Museum.