The Buffalo Silver is one of the most impressive and coveted coin designs from American history. A variety of special catalogues exists on the individual areas, regions and cities for the interested collector.NOTICE : Due to the strong demand for the product, the number of items per order is limited to 80 pieces. The catalogues cited can give only an overview of the collection area “Medieval Coins”. Zu den einzelnen Gebieten, Regionen und Städten existiert eine Vielzahl an Spezialkatalogen für den interessierten Sammler. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1975.ĭie angeführten Kataloge können lediglich einen Überblick zum Sammelgebiet der mittelalterlichen Münzen vermitteln. Suhle, A.: Deutsche Münz- und Geldgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zum 15.

Spufford, P.: Money and its use in Medieval Europe, Cambridge 1989.Handbuch und Thesaurus Nummorum Medii Aevi, Berlin / Wien 2007. Kluge, B.: Numismatik des Mittelalters.Grierson, P.: Münzen des Mittelalters, München 1976.Corpus Nummorum Austriacorum, Band I: Mittelalter, Wien 1994.

Berger, F.: Die mittelalterlichen Brakteaten im Kestner-Museum Hannover, 2 Bände, Hannover 19.Start your collection of medieval coins today! Introductory literature: Immerse yourself in the ever-changing coin images of the Middle Ages in the time of Charlemagne (768-814), the Spanish Reconquista (711-1492), the Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa (1152-1190), and the Hundred Years’ War between England and France (1337-1453)! There emerged differentiated currency systems with a great diversity of currencies, types and coins. “gros tournois”) these denominations also reached northern Europe in the Middle Ages, where they were imitated in the periods which followed. Together with larger silver coin types like the groat or groschen (Fr. In the Italian “trade republics” of Florence, Genoa and Venice, due to the demand for larger currencies, the denominations florin, genovino and ducat (orig. In the 13th century, gold returned to the mints of the Middle Ages.

The collector of medieval coins thus gains access to numerous subject areas.ĭeutsches Reich / Halberstadt. The award of minting rights for coins by medieval rulers to clerical (bishoprics and monasteries) and secular (duchies and counties) institutions led, particularly in territories of the German Empire, to a large number of mints (at some points more than 400). In the Staufer period (12th and 13th century) the denarius was minted in central Germany as a large one-sided hollow penny (brakteat) in a highly artistic quality with, in some cases, impressive coin images. These coins were minted in much of Europe (Germany = pfennig, England = penny, France = denier and Italy = denaro) in a variety of types. With the coinage reform which he carried out in 800, Charlemagne (768-814) reorganized the Frankish monetary policy of the Great Migration period and created a new system which would, by and large, remain in effect - in its essential aspects - for the next 500 years: the only denomination in the currency became the silver denarius, which was to be the 240th part of one pfund (around 400 g).

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