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Winchester Studies 8
The Winchester Mint: and Coins and Related Finds from the Excavations of 1961-71
Edited by Martin Biddle
768 pages
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6400 b/w images of faces of coins
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279x216mm
978-0-19-813172-4
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Hardback
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19 April 2012
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- A detailed and illustrated catalogue of one of the four major Anglo-Saxon mints.
- Provides an analysis of the production of the coinage by a team of leading authorities.
Over three and a half centuries from the 880s to 1250, moneyers working in Winchester produced at the very least 24 million silver pennies. About five and a half thousand survive in national and local museums and private collections all over the world and have been sought out, 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.Readership: All major academic libraries in Europe and North America,
museums with significant coin collections, dealers and collectors of Anglo-Saxon and post-conquest coins, and advanced university courses in economic history and monetary control.
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Edited by Martin Biddle, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Oxford University. The general editor of the Winchester series, Martin Biddle, is an archaeologist with a particular interest in towns. He has excavated at Winchester, Repton, and St Albans, and at Qasr Ibrim in Nubia, and in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Biddle has been the Director of the Winchester Research Unit since 1968 and is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Oxford. Contributors:
Martin Allen, Marion Archibald, Martin Biddle, Mark Blackburn, Christopher Blunt,
Helen
Mitchell Brown, Michael Dolley, Geoff Egan, Margaret Gelling,
Eurydice Georganteli, Philip Grierson, Martin Henig, Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle,
Stewart Lyon, Adrian Marsden, Rory Naismith, Tim Pestell, Stuart Rigold, and
Veronica Smart, and the catalogue of the coins of the Winchester Mint by Yvonne Harvey.
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List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviationsRory Naismith:
BibliographyRory Naismith:
PART I: THE WINCHESTER MINT
1: Stewart Lyon: Minting in Winchester: an Introduction and Statistical Analysis
2: Martin Allen: The Winchester Mint and Exchange, 1158-1250
3: Veronica Smart: The Names of the Moneyers of the Winchester Mint
4: Margaret Gelling: The Place-name 'Winchester'
5: Yvonne Harvey: Catalogue and Die-analysis of the Winchester Mint-signed Coins
6: Rory Naismith: Indices of Moneyers, Die-links, Hoards, and Other Finds, and Lists of Collections and Provenances
PART II: COINS AND RELATED FINDS FROM THE WINCHESTER EXCAVATIONS OF 1961-71
1: Christopher Blunt & Michael Dolley, revised by Martin Allen & Mark Blackburn: Anglo-Saxon and Later Coins
2: Philip Mernick: Jettons and Tokens by the late S.E. Rigold, the inscriptions revised by Philip Mernick
3: Tim Pestell & Adrian Marsden: Repoussé Foils Imitating Arabic Coins
4: Geoff Egan: Lead tokens and Related Items
5: Martin Biddle: Byzantine and Eastern Finds from Winchester: Chronology, Stratification, and Social Context
6: Eurydice Georganteli: Byzantine Coins
7: Philip Grierson: Byzantine Seals
8: Martin Henig: Byzantine Intaglio
9: Tim Pestell: Papal Bullae
10: Helen Mitchell Brown & Rory Naismith: Kufic Coin
11: Marion Archibald & Martin Biddle: Hebrew token
12: Martin Allen & Martin Biddle: A Lead Seal, Possibly of Henry I
13: Martin Biddle & Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle: The Contexts of the Coins: Problems of Residuality and Dating
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