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Medieval European Coinage: Volume 6, The Iberian Peninsula

Miquel Crusafont author Anna M Balaguer author Philip Grierson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Mar '17

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A major new work of reference on the coinage of Spain and Portugal from c.1000 to 1500.

This major work of reference surveys the coinage of Spain and Portugal from c.1000 to 1500. It considers how money circulated throughout the peninsula, offering new syntheses of the monetary history of the individual kingdoms and includes an extensive catalogue of coins in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.This volume of Medieval European Coinage is the first English-language survey to bring the latest research on the coinage of Spain and Portugal c.1000–1500 to an international audience. A major work of reference by leading numismatic experts, the volume provides an authoritative and up-to-date account of the coinages of Aragon, Catalonia, Castile, Léon, Navarre and Portugal, which have rarely been studied together. It considers how money circulated throughout the peninsula, offering new syntheses of the monetary history of the individual kingdoms and includes an extensive catalogue of the Aragonese, Castilian, Catalan, Leonese, Navarrese and Portuguese coins in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum. This major contribution to the field will be a valuable point of reference for the study of medieval history, numismatics and archaeology.

'This book must be part of every library whose owner intends to deal seriously with medieval numismatics.' Ursula Kampmann, Coins Weekly

ISBN: 9781316506745

Dimensions: 248mm x 190mm x 48mm

Weight: 1780g

922 pages