Т.В. Гимон

NAISMITH R. MONEY AND POWER IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: THE SOUTHERN ENGLISH KINGDOMS, 757-865. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012. 351 P

T.V. Guimon

NAISMITH R. MONEY AND POWER IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: THE SOUTHERN ENGLISH KINGDOMS, 757Ц865. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012. 351 P.

This is a review of Rory NaismithТs stimulating book on money in Southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the mid-eighth to the mid-ninth century. The book treats such problems as the production of silver pennies (towns of production, carriers of moneyers and die-cutters, design of coins, standards of weight and fi neness, the dynamics of production); the role of royal power in this process (the restrictions and management of coin-production and circulation, the possible interrelations between kings and moneyers, the representation of kings in coins); the circulation of coinage; the role of coinage in early medieval economy.