Numismatics


1. Bibliographies and Reference Sources

Blackburn, M.A.S. and Philip Grierson, 'England Medieval', A Survey of Numismatic Research, 1985-1990, ed. by T. Hackeus et al. (Brussels, 1991), p. 546-70.

Blackburn, M.A.S. and Hugh Pagan, 'A Revised Check-List of Coin Hoards from the British Isles, c.500-1100', Anglo-Saxon Monetary History: Essays in Memory of Michael Dolley, ed. by M.A.S. Blackburn (Leicester, 1986), p. 291-313.

Greenhalgh, D.I., Cumulative Index to Spink’s Numismatic Circular, Volumes 1 to 100 (London, 1993).

Metcalf, D.M., An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coin Finds, c.973-1086 (Oxford, 1998).

Smart, Veronica, Cumulative Index of Volumes 1-20 (London, 1981).
This item, and Smart (1992), are indexes to the published volumes of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, a series which records British coinage in public and private collections worldwide. Those volumes of particular interest to ASS are recorded individually in part 3.

Smart, Veronica, Cumulative Index of Volumes 21-40 (Oxford, 1992).
See notes at Smart (1981).

2. Commentaries

Blackburn, M.A.S., ed., Anglo-Saxon Monetary History: Essays in Memory of Michael Dolley (Leicester, 1986).

Colman, Fran, Money Talks: Reconstructing Old English (New York, 1992).
The evidence of personal names on Anglo-Saxon coins as linguistic information.

Dolley, Reginald H. Michael, ed., Anglo-Saxon Coins (London, 1961).

Dolley, Reginald H. Michael, Anglo-Saxon Pennies (London, 1964).

Grierson, Philip, Dark Age Numismatics (London, 1979).

Hill, David and D.M. Metcalf, ed., Sceattas in England and on the Continent: the Seventh Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History (Oxford, 1984).

North, J.J., English Hammered Coinage, I: Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III, c.600-1272, third edition (London, 1994).

Sutherland, Carol H.V., Anglo-Saxon Coinage in the Light of the Crondall Hoard (Oxford, 1948).

3. Coin Collections


a) Miscellaneous Locations

Berga, Tatjana, Latvian Collections: Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins (Oxford, 1996).

Blackburn, Mark, Christina Colyer and Michael Dolley, Early Medieval Coins from Lincoln and its shire, c.770-1100 (Lincoln, 1983).

Blunt, C.E., F. Elmore-Jones and R.P. Mack, Mrs Emery May Norweb Collection: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon, and English Coins to 1180 (London, 1971).

Booth, James, Northern Museums: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coins to 1279 (Oxford, 1997)

Brady, Jeremiah D., Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins in American Collections (London, 1982).

Clough, T.H.McK., Museums in East Anglia: the Morley St Peter Hoard and Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Angevin Coins, and Later Coins of the Norwich Mint (London, 1979).

Gunstone, A.J.H., Coins in Lincolnshire Collections (London, 1981).

Gunstone, A.J.H., Midland Museums: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins (London, 1971).

Gunstone, A.J.H., South-Eastern Museums: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Later Coins to 1279 (London, 1993).

Gunstone, A.J.H., West Country Museums: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins (London, 1977).

Mack, R.P., R.P. Mack Collection: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins (London, 1973).

Mikolajczyk, A., Polish Museums: Anglo-Saxon and Later Medieval British Coins (London, 1988).

Nordman, Carl, Anglo-Saxon Coins Found in Finland (Helsingfors, 1921)

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., Yorkshire Collections: Coins from Northumbrian Mints, c.895-1279; Ancient British and Later Coins from Other Mints to 1279 (London, 1975).

Warhurst, Margaret, Merseyside County Museums: Ancient British Issues and Later Coins from English, Irish and Scottish Mints to 1279 with Associated Foreign Coins (London, 1982).

b) Individual Locations

Berlin
Kluge, Bernd, State Museum, Berlin Coin Cabinet: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norse Coins (London, 1987).

Bristol

Grinsell, L.V., C.E. Blunt and Michael Dolley, Bristol and Gloucester Museums: Ancient British Coins and Coins of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Mints (London, 1973).

Cambridge

Baldwin, Edward and Kevin Butcher, Study Photographs of the C.E. Blunt Collection of British Medieval Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Part 1: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Hiberno-Norse, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1992).

Grierson, Philip, The FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge, Part I: Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon Coins (London, 1958).

Keynes, Simon and Mark Blackburn, FitzWilliam Museum: Anglo-Saxon Coins: an Exhibition, ed. by T.R. Volk (Cambridge, 1985).

Cardiff

Dykes, D.W., Anglo-Saxon Coins in the National Museum of Wales (Cardiff, 1977).

Chester

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., Grosvenor Museum, Chester: the Willoughby Gardner Collection of Coins with the Chester Mint-Signature (London, 1964).

Copenhagen

Galster, Georg, The Royal Danish Collection, Copenhagen, Part I: Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon Coins (London, 1964).

Galster, Georg, The Royal Danish Collection, Copenhagen, Part II: Anglo-Saxon Coins, Æthelred II (London, 1966).

Galster, Georg, The Royal Danish Collection, Copenhagen, Part III: Anglo-Saxon Coins of Cnut, 3 vols (London, 1970).

Galster, Georg, The Royal Danish Collection, Copenhagen, Part IV: Anglo-Saxon Coins from Harold I and Anglo-Norman Coins (London, 1972).

Edinburgh

Stevenson, Robert B.K., National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh, Part I: Anglo-Saxon Coins with Associated Foreign Coins (London, 1966).

Glasgow

Robertson, Anne S., The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Part I: the Anglo-Saxon Coins in the Hunterian and Coats Collection (London, 1961).

Gloucester

Grinsell, L.V., C.E. Blunt and Michael Dolley, Bristol and Gloucester Museums: Ancient British Coins and Coins of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Mints (London, 1973).

Helsinki

Talvio, Tuukka, The National Museum, Helsinki: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norse Coins (London, 1978).

London

Archibald, Marion M. and C.E. Blunt, British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins, Part V: Athelstan to the Reform of Edgar, 924-c.973 (London, 1986).

Grueber, Herbert A. and Charles Francis Keary, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Series, 2 vols (London, 1887-93) Reprinted (London, 1970).

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., Catalogue of the Early Northumbrian Coins in the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1982).

Oxford

Metcalf, D.M., Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum: Anglo-Saxon Gold and Silver Coinages, 3 vols (Oxford, 1993-4).

Thompson, James David Anthony, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Part I: Anglo-Saxon Pennies (London, 1967).

Reading

Blunt, C.E. and M. Dolley, Reading University: Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins; Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm: Anglo-Norman Pennies (London, 1969).

Stockholm

Talvio, Tuukka, Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm, Part IV: Anglo-Saxon Coins: Harold I to Harthacnut, 1035-1042 (Oxford, 1991).


4. Periods

See also other parts of Section Seven.


a) Early, c.400-c.700

Sutherland, Carol H.V., Anglo-Saxon Gold Coinage in the Light of the Crondall Hoard (Oxford, 1948).

Sutherland, Carol H.V., English Coinage, 600-900 (London, 1973).

b) Middle, c.700-c.900

Sutherland, Carol H.V., English Coinage, 600-900 (London, 1973).

c) Late, c.900-c.1100

Blunt, C.E., B.H.I.H. Stewart and C.S.S. Lyon, Coinage in Tenth-Century England from Edward the Elder to Edgar's Reform (Oxford, 1989).

Freeman, Anthony, The Moneyer and the Mint in the Reign of Edward the Confessor, 1042-1066, 2 vols (Oxford, 1985).

Jonsson, Kenneth, The New Era: the Reformation of the Late Anglo-Saxon Coinage (Stockholm, 1987).

Jonsson, Kenneth, ed., Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon Coinage in Memory of Bror Emil Hildebrand (Stockholm, 1990).

Jonsson, Kenneth, Viking-Age Hoards and Late Anglo-Saxon Coins: a Study in Honour of Bror Emil Hildebrand's 'Anglosaxiska Mynt' (Stockholm, 1986).

Petersson, H. Bertil A., Anglo-Saxon Currency: King Edgar's Reform to the Norman Conquest (Lund, 1969).

5. Regions


a) North

Metcalf, D.M., ed., Coinage in Ninth Century Northumbria: the Tenth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History (Oxford, 1987).

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., Catalogue of the Early Northumbrian Coins in the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1982).

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., Coins of the Kingdom of Northumbria, c.700-867 (Leeds, 1991).

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., Yorkshire Collections: Coins from Northumbrian Mints, c.895-1279: Ancient British and Later Coins from Other Mints to 1279 (London, 1975).

6. Settlements


a) Individual Settlements

Lincoln
Blackburn, M.A.S., Christina Colyer and Michael Dolley, Early Medieval Coins from Lincoln and its Shire, c.770-1100 (London, 1983).

Blunt, C.E., The Lincoln and Stamford Mints in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (Lincoln, 1981).

Southampton

Andrews, P., ed., Southampton Finds, I: the Coins and Pottery from Hamwic (Southampton, 1988).

Stamford

Blunt, C.E., The Lincoln and Stamford Mints in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (Lincoln, 1981).

York

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., The York Hoard, 1831 (Llanfyllin, 1994).

Pirie, Elizabeth J.E., M.M. Archibald and R.A. Hall, Post-Roman Coins from York Excavations, 1971-81 (London, 1986).