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This volume is the fullest treatment in print of the Viking-Age economy in the Isle of Man, cataloguing the coin collection in Douglas and revealing a system that used silver and other metals on a substantial scale, in the form of bullion as well as coin. At least one identifiable group of coins was made on Man itself in the eleventh century.
List of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- General background
- Formation of the collection
- Scholarship
- Money and bullion in Viking-Age Man
- Productive sites: Arbory 1 and 2
- Secondary use of coin in Man
- Irish Sea mints: Dublin, Man and others
- Conclusion: the dual economy of the Isle of Man
- Collectors, Donors, and Dealers
- Hoards and Other Finds
- Hoards containing coins
- Coinless deposits
- Single coins
- Bibliography
- Plates
- Anglo-Saxon series
- Anglo-Norman series
- Hiberno-Scandinavian series
- Hiberno-Manx series
- Irish Sea-area imitations and other coins
- Non-Numismatic single-finds (and possible currency-related finds)
- Non-Numismatic material from the 2021 northern mixed hoard
- Index of Mints
- Index of Moneyers
About the author
Kristin Bornholdt Collins is an independent scholar with degrees from St Andrews and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD, Archaeology). Her doctoral research, which was supervised by Catherine Hills and the late Mark Blackburn, focused on the Viking-Age coin finds from the Isle of Man and the economy of the Irish Sea region. Her primary interests include the Hiberno-Manx coinage (from c. 1025) and the intersection and overlap of bullion, coin, and other economies in the later Viking Age. She also works as an English language consultant to Scandinavian archaeologists and numismatists writing in English.
Summary
This volume is the fullest treatment in print of the Viking-Age economy in the Isle of Man, cataloguing the coin collection in Douglas and revealing a system that used silver and other metals on a substantial scale, in the form of bullion as well as coin. At least one identifiable group of coins was made on Man itself in the eleventh century.
