Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings

Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings
Author: Simon Coupland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780860789918

This volume brings together for the first time Simon Coupland's series of significant articles on Carolingian coinage. The author draws out the economic and political implications of coin types and coin hoards from the reign of Charlemagne to the Edict of Pîtres in 864. This numismatic survey is complemented by other studies which use the evidence of coinage and contemporary texts to consider aspects of trade and power in the ninth century, particularly the impact of the Viking raids.