Medieval European Coinage: Volume 1, the Early Middle Ages (5th 10th Centuries)

by Philip Grierson and Mark Blackburn

This, the first volume of Medieval European Coinage, surveys the coinage of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century to the emergence of recognizable 'national' political units in the tenth. It starts with the Vandals, Visigoths, Burgundians and other Germanic invaders of the Empire, whose coins were modelled on contemporary issues of the Western or Eastern emperors. The coinage of the Franks is followed from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052103177X
• ISBN13: 9780521031776
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.7"