Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Anglo-Saxon Coins 1016-1066

Zusatztext excellent comparative material for anyone (chiefly specialists) wishing to identify a coin or place it in the context of its issue. Informationen zum Autor Dr Vsevelod Potin (1918-2005) began working part-time in the Numismatic Department in the Hermitage while still a student in 1940, later becoming curator of West European coins in 1959 and Director from 1974 until his retirement in 1998. He published extensively on the large 10th-13th-century element of the collection, including its Anglo-Saxon coins, and was for decades one of the leading numismatic authorities in the USSR and Russia. Klappentext This volume completes publication of the Anglo-Saxon component of the rich and diverse coin collection built up in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. It lists and illustrates over 1,100 late Anglo-Saxon pennies now held in the Hermitage Museum, the bulk of them found in Russian hoards deposited during the early Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung This volume completes publication of the Anglo-Saxon component of the rich and diverse coin collection built up in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. It lists and illustrates over 1,100 late Anglo-Saxon pennies now held in the Hermitage Museum, the bulk of them found in Russian hoards deposited during the early Middle Ages.

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• Authors: V R Potin, V. M. Potin, V. R. Potin, V. R. (Former Director of the Numismatic Department Potin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9780197265017
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726501-7
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 196 mm x 254 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Sylloge of Coins of the Britis; Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles; Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles; Sylloge of Coins of the Britis
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Non-fiction book; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Coins, Currency & Medals, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Collecting coins, banknotes, medals and other related items, Coins, banknotes, medals, seals (numismatics)