Contents: Preface; Charlemagne's coinage: ideology and economy; In palatio nostro: les monnaies palatines de Charlemagne; Money and coinage under Louis the Pious; La chronologie des émissions monétaires de Louis le Pieux (814-840); The Trier Mint 822-840; A die-link between coins of Louis the Pious and Lothar I; The coinage of Lothar I (840-855); The coinages of Pippin I and II of Aquitaine; The early coinage of Charles the Bald, 840-864; L'article XI de l'Edit de Pîtres du 25 juin 864; Dorestad in the 9th century: the numismatic evidence; From poachers to gamekeepers: Scandinavian warlords and Carolingian kings; Trading places: Quentovic and Dorestad reassessed; The Frankish tribute payments to the Vikings and their consequences; Carolingian coinage and Scandinavian silver; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
Revd Dr Simon Coupland is an Independent Scholar.
’This collection, spanning twenty years of scholarship, conveniently packages together several important and influential studies with others, equally pointed but less well known, which throw light on almost one hundred years of Carolingian history, particularly the years from 768 to 864.’ English Historical Review
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