This volume of Medieval European Coinage deals with the coinage of south Italy ... Angevin and Aragonese dynasties that in turn ruled part or the whole of the Mezzogiorno. The complex background to ...

The volume reveals for the first time the wider trends that shaped the coinages of the region and offers new syntheses of the monetary history of the individual cities. It includes detailed appendices ...

No State shall...coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.... The prohibition on the states to create any form of money signaled the ...

We've all grown so accustomed to using little round pieces of metal to buy things, that it's easy to forget that coins arrived quite late in the history of the world. For over two thousand years ...

(Hugh Kennedy) This series is a history told through 'things', and this programme is about two coins - about what we would now call a currency change. But they're two coins that sum up one of the ...