Conveners
S59. LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY MIDDLE AGES 4. ROME & BARBARIAN KINGDOMS
- Ruth Pliego (University of Seville)
After dating the coinage of Huneric (477-484), Gunthamund (484-496) and Thrasamund (496-523) this paper aims to question whether the imitations of the obverses which depict Honorius and Gunthamund respectively were indeed issued by Gunthamund and Thrasamund. The representation of Honorius on the “Anno K” issue (stuck under Huneric) is the same as that of Gunthamund on some of his denarii...
The circulation of money in the 5th and 6th centuries remained poorly understood for several decades, mainly as regards bronze coins. Several discoveries of recent decades, as well as the data brought in by the most recent excavations, have now made possible some significant advances for the region of southern Gaul. They have also enabled the resumption of the study of several groups of...
Circulation of coinage involves not only travel through space but also movement in time: coins enter circulation, then circulate for some longer or shorter amount of time, with greater or lesser intervals of immobility, and finally leave circulation. The amount of time that coins are in circulation is an essential factor determining the monetary supply of the economy. For the Visigothic...
