Images of power
Subtitle: Byzantium and nordic coinage, c. 995-1035
By: Fedir Androshchuk
Series: Occasional monographs -- 5; Occasional monographs (Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ komitet ukraïnsʹkykh vizantinistiv) -- 5
Publisher: Laurus; ACHByz
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Kyiv; Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789662449884
Subjects: Coinage; History; Coins; Byzantine Coins; Scandinavian Coins; Numismatics; Medieval Numismatics; Power (Social sciences); Kings and rulers; Portraits
Other titles: Byzantium and nordic coinage, c. 995-1035
Notes: "This study is devoted to a group of Scandinavian imitations of a type of miliaresia of Basil II and Constantine VIII struck between AD 977 and 989. The imitations were produced during the first half of eleventh century, i.e. later than the circulation of their Byzantine prototypes. Apart from Scandinavia, similar imitations were struck in the area of the Taman peninsula in southern Russia. What was the reason for imitating these Byzantine coins? Did the imitators and people of Scandinavia understand the effgies on these coins? Why were some Anglo-Saxon and Byzantine coins chosen as the prototypes for the oldest Scandinavian coinage? Is there any connection between the Scandinavian and Russian imitations of Basil II and Constantine VIII’s coins? This book addresses these questions and contains a catalogue with descriptions of all of the types of Scandinavian imitations of Byzantine coins, and details relating to dating and find circumstances, as well as plates with enlarged photographs of the coins studied by the author."--Page 10.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-167) and index.
Table of contents: title: Viking-Age Imitations of Coins in Scandinavia; title: Byzantine Prototypes; title: Types of Scandinavian Imitations; title: A Short Outline of Rus Coinage; title: Taman Imitations of Basil II’s Miliaresia and the Nordic Coinage; title: Historical Background for the Appearance of Scandinavian Imitations of Byzantine Coins; title: Iconographical Analysis of Imitations of Byzantine Coins; title: Images of Power. Possible Reasons for the Imitation of Byzantine Coins in Scandinavia; title: Conclusion; title: Catalogue of Coins; title: Concordance of Types.