Lyon Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins

Informationen zum Autor Educated at Liverpool College and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD). President, British Numismatic Society 1966-70 (currently a Vice-President) and Sanford Saltus gold medallist 1974. An actuary by profession; President of the Institute of Actuaries 1982-84. Klappentext This book records, illustrates, and discusses the context of more than 1,000 coins from the Anglo-Saxon period, assembled by the author during 60 years of scholarly research. The collection is particularly strong in the 9th-century coinage of the kingdom of Northumbria, and in silver pennies from the early 10th and early 11th centuries. Zusammenfassung This book records, illustrates, and discusses the context of more than 1,000 coins from the Anglo-Saxon period, assembled by the author during 60 years of scholarly research. The collection is particularly strong in the 9th-century coinage of the kingdom of Northumbria, and in silver pennies from the early 10th and early 11th centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES PART I Introduction Synopsis 1: Southumbrian England to c. 750 2: The Kingdom of Northumbria 3: Southumbrian England from c. 750 to the Arrival of the Viking 4: Monetary Unification and the First Viking Campaign 5: Viking Coinages in the Danelaw, c. 895-927 6: Alfred's Monetary Reform and the Expansion of English Minting 7: The Mid-Tenth Century, 939-c. 973 8: Coinage Renewal and Weight Variation in the Fifty Years after Edgar's Reform OF c. 973 9: From 1023/4 to the Norman Conquest 10: Norman Kings and other Coinages PART II 1: Catalogue Collectors, Dealers, etc. Abbreviations Bibliography Arrangement of the catalogue Plates Index of mints Index of moneyers Index of finds

Product details

• Authors: Stewart Lyon, Stewart (Independent Scholar) Lyon, Lyon Stewart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2017
• EAN: 9780197266021
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726602-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Coins, Currency & Medals, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Medieval History, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Collecting coins, banknotes, medals and other related items, Coins, banknotes, medals, seals (numismatics)