Carolingian Coins in Ninth-Century Scandinavia: A Norwegian Perspective

Garipzanov, Ildar H.

doi:10.1484/j.vms.2.3017464

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“…In archaeology, non-monetary functions of money have mainly been considered in the contexts of classical, early medieval, or medieval Europe (e.g. Casey, 1986; Casey and Reece, 1974; Clarke and Schia, 1989; Creighton, 2000; Garipzanov, 2005; Kurke, 1999; Papadopoulos, 2002; Reece, 2003; Theuws, 2004). More symbolic explanations for the possible intentional disposal of copper coins have arisen, for example, from work on late Iron Age sites in the Netherlands, where Kok has suggested that the physical qualities and colours of objects and the presence of deities on Roman coins acted as a factor determining their choice for deposition as ceremonial offerings (2008: 133).…”

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Engaging with money in a northern periphery of early modern Europe

Herva

Nurmi

Symonds

2012

Journal of Social Archaeology

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While contextual and interpretive approaches to money have recently emerged in archaeology, coins have attracted little serious attention in the post-medieval archaeology of the western world. The relative neglect of coins as archaeological finds probably derives from an (implicit) assumption that the function and meaning of coins is readily apparent. A close study of coin finds, however, combined with various sources of contextual data, can provide new views on how people understood and engaged with coinage even in the comparatively recent past, as this article seeks to illustrate by considering money and coin finds from a northern periphery of early modern Sweden. Economic factors are important for appreciating the significance of coinage and the patterning of the studied coin finds, but this article proposes that non-monetary uses of coins were more important to the local understanding of money than has previously been recognized.

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