Table of Contents

1. Thoughts on the beginnings of coinage M. J. Price; 2. The life of obverse dies in the Hellenistic period Otto Morkholm; 3. Roman coinage of the Cyrenaica, first century BC to first century AD T. V. Buttrey; 4. Roman imperial coin types and the formation of public opinion M. H. Crawford; 5. Coin hoards and Roman coinage of the third century AD R. A. G. Carson; 6. Belgian finds of late fourth-century Roman bronze J. Lallemand; 7. The re-use of obsolete coins: the case of Roman imperial bronzes revived in the late fifth century Cecile Morrison; 8. Interpreting the alloy of the Merovingian silver coinage D. M. Metcalf; 9. Carolingian gold coins from the Ilanz hoard Ernesto Bernareggi; 10. The novi denarii and forgery in the ninth century Jean Lafaurie; 11. On the rejection of good coin in Carolingian Europe Stanislaw Suchodolski; 12. Ælfred the Great's abandonment of the concept of periodic recoinage Michael Dolley; 13. King or Queen? An eleventh-century pfennig of Duisburg Peter Berghaus; 14. Personal names on Norman coins of the eleventh century: an hypothesis F. Dumas; 15. The Gornoslav hoard, the Emperor Frederick I, and the Monastery of Bachkovo M. F. Hendy; 16. Coinages of Barcelona (1209 to 1222): the documentary evidence T. N. Bisson; 17. Finds of English medieval coins in Schleswig-Holstein G. Hatz; 18. Privy-marking and the trial of the pyx C. E. Blunt; 19. Judicial documents relating to coin forgery Pierre P. Cockshaw; 20. Mint organisation in the Burgundian Netherlands in the fifteenth century Peter Spufford; 21. Coinage in Andrew Halyburton's Ledger Marion M. Archibald; 22. Imitation in later medieval coinage: the influence of Scottish types abroad Ian Stewart; 23. Barter in fifteenth-century Genoa Carlo M. Cipolla.

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