Conveners
S62. EARLY MIDDLE AGES 2. EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
- Mateusz Bogucki (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Acady of Sciences / Commision of Numismatic Studies Polish Academy of Sciences)
The material covered by our analysis includes finds from Lesser Poland, the historical and geographic provinces which takes in the present-day voivodeships of Poland: Lesser Poland, Subcarpathian, a large part of Świętokrzyskie, Lublin, as well as southern part of Masovia and the eastern areas of Silesia. As compared to other regions of Poland (Pomerania, Greater Poland, Central Poland,...
This paper presents an update on the die catalogue of dirham imitations produced somewhere between the Islamic world and the Baltic area in the 9th and 10th centuries. I am currently preparing it for publication on the basis of the work of Gert Rispling from Stockholm. I will briefly present this coinage before reviewing the issues related to the organisation of such an extensive body of...
The historiographic tradition of ninth and tenth century Eastern European economic flows used to see the Dnieper and the Volga routes as the chief sources of Islamic silver. This is supported by the wealth of coin finds deriving from the extensive academic focus on this particular area while alternate routes were not accorded their due attention. However, unpublished archived archaeological...
The paper will discuss two very distinct groups of imitative dirhams found in Middle Viking-age coin hoards in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The first group is datable to c.890-900 AD. The second group is datable to c. 950-960 AD. Both groups differ significantly in the design and techniques from earlier and contemporary imitative coinages of Khazaria and Volga Bulgaria, and are seen to...
