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WINCHESTER MINT V8 WS

By Biddle

WINCHESTER MINT V8 WS

By Biddle

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Over three and a half centuries from the 88s to 125, 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 32 coins in 64 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 ofHenry 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 andanalysed 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 laterAnglo-Saxon period.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
770
Release Date:
2012-06-18
Publication Date:
2017-03-30
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198131720
ISBN13:
9780198131724
Weight:
2160 g
Height:
221 cm
Width:
286 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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