Coinmaster Posted December 25, 2022 · Member Share Posted December 25, 2022 A friend of mine created these interactive maps on my request and with my help. Perhaps it's of use to someone. Anglo Saxon mints: https://detectoramateur.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/fe39b0dd6763400eb0c2f6efb44b97b4 Dutch/Belgian mints: https://detectoramateur.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/90e064b134534790b1c8a1e7f5fdc6a9 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted December 25, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2022 Looks neat!...I'm on my mobile at the moment so will try it out on my large screen PC at home...Interesting to see Barnstaple on the index as it's where I grew up and lived there for 30+ years... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted December 25, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2022 Some nice work there, well done. I spent the first 10 years of my life in Thetford and 27 years in Bury St. Edmunds 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted December 25, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2022 9 minutes ago, Spaniard said: Looks neat!...I'm on my mobile at the moment so will try it out on my large screen PC at home...Interesting to see Barnstaple on the index as it's where I grew up and lived there for 30+ years... Yes it seems to work as a nice ‘other way up’ to PAS, where you only get the map once you find the coin, while this allows you to click down from the map. It shows just how many mints there were. Perhaps more than any other time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinmaster Posted December 25, 2022 · Member Author Share Posted December 25, 2022 The other map links to specific information (in Dutch though) of each mint. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted December 29, 2022 · Member Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) Many thanks for these, @Coinmaster. Both are bookmarked. From here, the second map is especially helpful, my helpless ignorance of the Dutch notwithstanding! Right, as in numismatic references --or, for that matter, legends on the coins themselves-- proper nouns readily 'translate.' It's especially illuminating, relative to Continental sceattas, to see how many mints were in operation during the Merovingian period. (Cf. the brilliant threads posted here by @Roerbakmix and others. To anyone just tuning in, all you have to do is a search for 'sceattas.') As a collector of denars and petit deniers of Frisia and Brabant, c. 11th-13th centuries, the context for those is no less welcome. The Carolingian precedent for the 11th-century Frisian issues is especially enlightening. As in the case of the Continental sceattas, this gives me some idea of where the diversity, and sheer volume, of those coinages originated from. Edited December 29, 2022 by JeandAcre 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinmaster Posted December 29, 2022 · Member Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 Perhaps this website is also helpful: https://www.mittelaltermuenzen.com/the-coins Plus my recent article: https://www.academia.edu/92848193/_2022_Utrechtse_bisschoppen_op_munten_1178_1267_ Let me know if you have any questions. 👍🏻 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted December 29, 2022 · Member Share Posted December 29, 2022 Fantastic-looking article, @Coinmaster, wish I could read it! Bookmarked anyway; the related articles look interesting, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted December 29, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted December 29, 2022 4 minutes ago, JeandAcre said: Fantastic-looking article, @Coinmaster, wish I could read it! Bookmarked anyway; the related articles look interesting, too. You could try copying and pasting the article into DeepL or Google Translate. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted December 29, 2022 · Member Share Posted December 29, 2022 Many thanks, Donna! Right, I only having trouble copying and pasting in .pdf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted December 29, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted December 29, 2022 Not all pdfs can be copied that way, unfortunately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roerbakmix Posted December 30, 2022 · Member Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 12/29/2022 at 5:44 AM, JeandAcre said: It's especially illuminating, relative to Continental sceattas, to see how many mints were in operation during the Merovingian period. (Cf. the brilliant threads posted here by @Roerbakmix and others. To anyone just tuning in, all you have to do is a search for 'sceattas.') Thanks for endorsing my posts 🙂 I might be using the maps incorrectly, but I'm unable to view the Merovingian mints? It should be noted however that (as far as I know), only Dorestad (current Wijk bij Duurstede) is known with certainty to have minted 'Frisian coinage' during the Merovingian period - and only gold coins by Madelinus. Dorestad probably minted many sceattas as well (and many are found in that region), however none bear an inscription. Domburg, Zeeland (south / east of NL) was likely a prolific mint, and perhaps Tiel (river delta, close to Domber) minted the scarce (Metcalf and Op den Velde identified about 30 in 2014) Series D BMC 10: The obverse copies the Series C EPA (runic); while the reverse shows a Latin legend "TILV". Point is however, that only a fraction of the continental sceattas have a legend (other than EPA, which is present on nearly all series D BMC 2c's). @Nap and @Tejas have posted a few threads hypothesizing how the minting process worked in the Merovingian 'dark ages'. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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