• Minting in Vandal North Africa: coins of the Vandal period in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum

    Author(s):
    Guido M. Berndt, Roland Steinacher (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Group(s):
    Archaeology, Early Medieval, Late Antiquity
    Subject(s):
    Classical antiquities, Numismatics, Africa, Rome (Empire)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Roman archaeology, Roman Empire
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/e2cx-pc59
    Abstract:
    This paper offers a re‐examination of some problems regarding the coinage of Vandal North Africa. The coinage of this barbarian successor state is one of the first non‐imperial coinages in the Mediterranean world of the fifth and sixth centuries. Based on the fine collection in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, this article questions the chronology of the various issues and monetary relations between the denominations under the Vandal kings, especially after the reign of Gunthamund (484–96). The Vandals needed and created a solid financial system. In terms of political, administrative and economic structures they tried to integrate their realm into the changing world of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2008.00231.x
    Publisher:
    Wiley
    Pub. Date:
    2008-7-11
    Journal:
    Early Medieval Europe
    Volume:
    16
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    252 - 298
    ISSN:
    0963-9462,1468-0254
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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