Coining Values
Bronze between Money and Scrap in late Roman an early medieval Europe
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…practices surrounding coins and ‘scrap’ reveal a myriad of questions concerning possible meanings of value and their transformations. In some instances, people tried to melt down bronze coins, in order to recycle…
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…devaluation of bronze coins and the revaluation of cut bronze fragments in late antiquity. Issues such as coin circulation, coin substitution, the supply of coins, the recycling of coins, and non-ferrous metals…
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…to the long-term sphere and vice versa, for this rituals are often necessary (Bloch/Parry 1989, 24; 26; 28–30). P R E CO I N AG E S O C I E T I E S A N D U N CO I N E D B R O N Z E Against this background…
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…the sixth, largely modelled on the Byzantine gold coins. Copper coins were not produced in this region. Sixth-century Byzantine copper and bronze coins do turn up in Merovingian contexts in the Rhine …
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…Rahel Otte Coins without Value? The Hoard from Rheindahlen and the End of Monetisation in the Rhineland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …