Coinage in South-Eastern Europe, 820-1396
By: D. M. Metcalf
Edition: Greek Edition, with a new Introductory Essay, and a Supplementary Bibliography.
Publisher: Demetrius Siatras
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Coinage; Medieval Coins; Numismatics
Notes: "The author's interest in south-eastern Europe was first aroused in 1954 when, as un undergraduate, he studied the geography of the area. He has subsequently made several visits to the former Jugoslavia and Greece, in order to work on the coins in museums in Athens, Corinth, Ljubljana, Thessaloniki, and Zagreb. The present work originated in an essay which was awarded the Society's Parkes Weber Prize in 1955. From it, there grew a Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge. Then, was published as a book under the title Coinage in the Balkans, 820-1355, by the Institute for Balkan Studies (Thessaloniki, 1965). The edition was exhausted in 1966, and the book was 'pirated' in the United States. After that the text had been extensively re-written and expanded, to take account of the hundreds of new books, articles and hoard-reports; its scope had also been extended, to deal with the second half of the fourtheenth century, and with Wallachia; so, a second revised edition emerged under the slightly changed title, Coinage in South-Eastern Europe, 820-1396 (Royal Numismatic Society, London, 1979). To the current third edition a new extensive introduction and an Appendix have been added, while the new bibliographical references have been incorporated into those of the previous editions; so far as it concerns the main text, this edition exactly reproduces that of 1979, except that a few spelling errors have been silently corrected. South-eastern Europe emerged from the migration period with a money economy restricted essentially to Constantinople. During the ninth century the use of a large-scale petty currency, as well as of gold and silver coinage, was restored in central Greece, and by the millenium, Byzantine copper folles were minted in remarkably large quantities, running into hundreds of millions. The spread of the money economy into the interior, however, proceeded only slowly until about the end of the twelfth century.

(continued) From then on, a wide range of different coinages were used in south-eastern Europe, including Venetian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Slavonian, the crusader issues of Frankish Greece, and coins from the cities of the Adriatic coasts, such as Kotor, Split, and Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The evidence of archaeological excavation and of several hundred coin-hoards is explored, in an attempt to assess the commercial, military, and other uses of money on pre-Ottoman times."--biblio.com (viewed July 11, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references (pages lvii-lxi) and indexes.

Lib. copy has label on title page verso with author signature in ink.
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction to the Greek edtition; title: Appendix: Byzantine expefdency coinages - Select bibliography 1979-2016; title: Introduction to the second edition; title: Numismatic evidence for monetary history; title: Growth in the monetary economy, 820-969; title: The ascendancy of Byzantium, 969-1025; title: Movements towards political autonomy : the years 1025-1092; title: Town and route : the topographical analysis of monetary affairs; title: The Comnenian coinage and its continuation, 1092-1261; title: Monetary circulation in ther Marchlands of the north-west; title: The Adriatic Coast as a meeting-place in monetary affairs; title: Silver mining and early development of the Serbian and Bosnian coinages; title: The currency of feudal Greece; title: Coinage in the restored Empire and Bulgaria, 1261-c. 1350; title: The Balkans : changing relationships with the European economies in the fourteenth century; title: The north Balkans and Byzantium in the second half of the fourteenth century; title: Appendix: Quantities of coinage issued in the Balkans in the nineteenth century; title: Gazetteer section; title: Key to the plates; title: Indexes; title: Plates.