4. Why Were Gold Coins Struck in the Visigothic Kingdom?

The solidus hoard of Casa delle Vestali in context

Opuscula Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome ◽

10.30549/opathrom-07-05 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 107-127 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Svante Fischer

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Roman Emperor ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Gold Coins ◽

Late Roman

In this paper, I discuss the context of a Late Roman solidus hoard found in the Casa delle Vestali on the Forum Romanum in Rome. The hoard consists of 397 solidi, Late Roman gold coins. Most of the hoard consists of uncirculated solidi struck in the name of the Western Roman emperor Procopius Anthemius (AD 467–472). By means of situating the hoard within the context of the reign of Anthemius and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the aim of this paper is to determine if the coins in the Vestal hoard can be related to other contemporary coin hoards by means of numismatic typology; this information could add to our understanding of why Anthemius’ reign is considered such an unmitigated failure and why the Empire collapsed soon after his murder. In this article, the composition of the hoard is examined, and the contents are compared to other contemporary solidus hoards in the Mediterranean, Gaul, Poland and Scandinavia. I argue that this comparison shows that the Vestal hoard is not part of a larger network but that the hoard constitutes the remains of an isolated occurrence—as initially suggested by its unusual composition and location.

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A hoard of byzantine gold coins from Samos

Revue numismatique ◽

10.3406/numi.1989.1943 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 6 (31) ◽

pp. 145-182

Author(s):

Mando Caramessini-Oeconomides ◽

Phane Drossoyianni

Keyword(s):

Gold Coins

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Two English Gold Coins

The British Museum Quarterly ◽

10.2307/4422311 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 41

Author(s):

E. S. G. Robinson

Keyword(s):

Gold Coins

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From Gold Coins to Cryptocurrencies: A History of Money In 10 Minutes

ITNOW ◽

10.1093/itnow/bwab065 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 6-7

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Central Bank ◽

Financial Services ◽

History Of ◽

Gold Coins ◽

Specialist Group

Abstract The BCS Financial Services Specialist Group compresses over 2,000 years of history and explains how we moved from using gold coins to being on the brink of governments issuing their own central bank digital currencies.

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Monstrous Craws at a new coalition feast

10.4324/9780815394266-rom174-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Gold Coins ◽

George Iii

John Bull’s Blood, reads the bowl which contains gold coins, from which Queen Charlotte and King George III (dressed as unseemly hags) swallow large mouthfuls. Their son, the Prince of Wales (and future George IV), sits between them, drinking from spoons on which Gillray has written £60000 per annum and £10000 per annum. In 1787, the year in which Gillray published this image, the Prince’s debts had reached £270,000; a parliamentary vote was necessary in order to bail him out.

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Art. I.—The Coinage of the Early or Imperial Gupta Dynasty of Northern India

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland ◽

10.1017/s0035869x00165712 ◽

1889 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 1-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Vincent Arthur Smith

Keyword(s):

Full Account ◽

Asiatic Society ◽

Northern India ◽

Introductory Essay ◽

Gold Coins ◽

Official Work

My paper entitled ‘A Classified and Detailed Catalogue of the Gold Coins of the Imperial Gupta Dynasty of Northern India, with an Introductory Essay,’ written in 1883, and published in 1884 by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, gave a full account of the Gupta gold coinage, so far as it was then known. At that time it was not in my power to extend my investigations to the silver and copper coinage, and subsequent criticism and study showed that my discussion of the gold coins was in some respects defective, and erroneous. An interval of rest from official work has now given me an opportunity of resuming my numismatic studies, and of completing and bringing up to date my examination of the Gupta coinage.

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