Topics in Medieval Numismatics

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Numismatists at Kalamazoo

Organizer Name

David W. Sorenson

Organizer Affiliation

Allen G. Berman, Numismatist

Presider Name

Allen G. Berman

Presider Affiliation

Allen G. Berman, Numismatist

Paper Title 1

Between Byzantium and Persia: Money and Politics in Transcaucasia (Sixth to Seventh Century)

Presenter 1 Name

Andrei Gandila

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville

Paper Title 2

Coins and Dies in Paris and Elsewhere, 1411-17

Presenter 2 Name

David W. Sorenson

Start Date

9-5-2014 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1350

Description

Numismatics, the study of coinage, is the study of something which touches on a vary wide variety of topics of importance for any premodern society in which coinage is produced. Coins are source documents for their societies; they are also reflections on the economies, industrial production, iconography, technical skill, social organization, chronology, and governmental control of a given society. The session has two very different papers: the first covers aspects of late-antique / early medieval coinage in Transcaucasia, on the Sasanian/Byzantine frontier; the second looks at aspects of coinage production in France, and in particular, at Paris as a producer of dies for other mints.

David Sorenson