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

Year: 2008

Type: article

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.

Source: Early Medieval Europe

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0254.2008.00231.x

Authors: Guido M. Berndt, Roland Steinacher

Institutions: Paderborn University, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research

Language: English

Topic: Classical Studies and Legal History

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2102284468

FWCI: 16.73

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