Coins, Coin-minting & Currency

Medieval examples of banners, seals, armory in manuscript s, architectu ral features, stained glass, tiles, effigies, brasses, and coinage featuring heraldry.

Reviews the evolution of the main types of Byzantine coinage in the Middle Byzantine era, and ends with some notes on collecting these coins.

Documentation relating to a Byzantine coin replica done for the Barony of Nordskogen's Silk Road event, with related links.

Also online at www.gryph.com/byzantine/coins.htm.

The full text of the English translation, featuring recipes for artists' supplies, and instructions for techniques.

Links to extant pre-17th century coin dies, and images of the minting process.

Cotswold Museum Service cares for around one and a half million archaeolog ical and social history objects in the Council&#3 9;s collection s. Many of the objects are displayed at the recently refurbishe d and extended Corinium Museum, Cirenceste r.

See The Collection s to search for items.

A database of drawings and graphics of mechanical devices from Renaissance and late medieval sources.

Monetary historians have debated whether too many or too few petty coins, those most needed by the general populace, were struck in medieval Europe. But exactly how many were struck can be determined only for Flanders, where petty coinage usually accounted for 1% or less of the bullion minted.

A place for the collectors and students of Islamic Numismatics to share knowledge and information about Medieval Islamic coins.

The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank provides scholars with an expanding library of informatio n in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815. MEMDB contains five large data sets, three pertaining to currency exchanges and two pertaining to prices.

A site about Europe's early dated coins - an online expansion of the Frey Catalogue of Dated European Coinage Before 1501 - with additional coins not included by Frey from numerous catalogues through 1530 as are found and identified.

Mailing list to foster the many and varied skills of the jewellers, metalworkers, moneyers and lapidarists of Lochac within our SCA context. All those who work with, or are interested in, metal and gemstones are welcome.

Medieval to Modern Times

The database is now a living resource, constantly updated by our staff with several hundred new objects each day. The objects recorded by the Scheme, are known as "porta ble antiquitie s" and are found by members of the public. These objects range from the Palaeolith ic to around the 18th Century, and include items recorded in the Annual Treasure Report published by the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The Portable Antiquitie s Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeolog ical objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.

For almost a millennium , a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as "the Glass Wreck" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation , and the conservati on of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possession s of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoverie s.

Video showing a Viking-age coin die and demonstrat ing how it would have been used.

Period coins, making coins. Sources for info and coin metals.

Coinage from the Crusader states and Europe, mostly from the 11th-14th centuries.