Conveners
S65. MIDDLE AGES 3. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIEVAL COINAGES: COIN FINDS, CIRCULATION AND RECENT RESEARCH
- Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge)
Description
Org.: Martin Allen, Marcus Phillips, Julian Baker, Richard Kelleher; chair: Rory Naismith
This session, sponsored by the Medieval European Coinage Project of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, will present new research by authors mainly working on the silver coinages of Western Europe and the Mediterranean world.
Recent coin finds have provided new insights into the organisation of the English royal coinage after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and local coinages during the civil war of the reign of King Stephen (1135-54). The reporting and publication of coin finds has also greatly increased our understanding of coin production and use in other parts of the medieval world. In complex numismatic contexts such as the Low Countries and the Latin East, new research is resolving many remaining problems in the coinages of various mints.
The speakers are Martin Allen, 'New discoveries in the Anglo-Norman coinage of 1066-1158', Julian Baker, ‘Areas of circulation of medieval Greek deniers tournois in the light of recent finds’, Richard Kelleher, 'New thoughts on the coinage of Crusader Edessa and Antioch', and Marcus Phillips, ‘How to catalogue the gros au lis: Flanders or France?’
The Chew Valley hoard has greatly increased knowledge of the first English coinage of William I after his invasion of England in 1066 and the degree of continuity in mints and moneyers from the last coinage of Anglo-Saxon England. Single finds recorded by the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC) have provided many coins of mints or moneyers new to their coinage type...
Deniers tournois coinages were issued in enormous quantities in medieval Mainland Greece and adjoining territories (Achaia, Athens, etc.) in the 13th and 14th centuries. The database of coin finds, within the primary and secondary (especially in Italy, Albania-Macedonia-Bulgaria, and Anatolia) areas of circulation, has augmented steadily over the last decade and we are now able to view the...
Drawing on newly available material and coins in museum collections this paper offers a revision on the classification of some of the Crusader coinages of Edessa and Antioch. Three areas will be considered: 1) the light folles of Baldwin II of Edessa; 2) the folles of Bohemond I at Antioch; and 3) the billon deniers of Raymond of Poitiers at Antioch. Both new specimens that have appeared in...
Cataloguers sometimes prefer to stick with old, discredited, attributions rather than use new ones. One reason is that modern classifications tend to get ever more complicated; the French gros tournois series being a case in point. The gros au lis is a relatively scarce type of gros tournois which, it used to be thought, were struck in Bruges between 1298 and 1302. In the 1997 publication, The...
