Stewart Lyon

The Lyon Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book records, illustrates, and discusses the context of more than 1,000 coins from the Anglo-Saxon period, assembled by the author during 60 years of scholarly research. The collection is particularly strong in the 9th-century coinage of the kingdom of Northumbria, and in silver pennies from the early 10th and early 11th centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 193mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9780197266021
• ISBN-10: 0197266029
• Artikelnr.: 47868120

Autorenporträt

Educated at Liverpool College and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD). President, British Numismatic Society 1966-70 (currently a Vice-President) and Sanford Saltus gold medallist 1974. An actuary by profession; President of the Institute of Actuaries 1982-84.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
PART I
Introduction
Synopsis
1: Southumbrian England to c. 750
2: The Kingdom of Northumbria
3: Southumbrian England from c. 750 to the Arrival of the Viking
4: Monetary Unification and the First Viking Campaign
5: Viking Coinages in the Danelaw, c. 895-927
6: Alfred's Monetary Reform and the Expansion of English Minting
7: The Mid-Tenth Century, 939-c. 973
8: Coinage Renewal and Weight Variation in the Fifty Years after Edgar's Reform OF c. 973
9: From 1023/4 to the Norman Conquest
10: Norman Kings and other Coinages
PART II
1: Catalogue
Collectors, Dealers, etc.
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Arrangement of the catalogue
Plates
Index of mints
Index of moneyers
Index of finds