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Excavations at Helgö X: Coins, Iron and Gold by Bengt E. Hovén, Ola Kyhlberg, Brita Malmer, Pär Hallinder, Hanne Flyge, Jørn Randrup, W. A. Oddy, V. E. G. Meyer, N. D. Meeks is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Excavations at Helgö X" contains articles concerning the coins found at Helgö: the solidi, the Westeuropean and the Arabic silvercoins. The volume also includes special articles concerning two other important groups in the Helgö material: the gold objects and the iron slag. The article on the solidi is not purely numismatic in character but is rather an archaeological analysis of the numismatic sources. The study includes a socio-economic framework to the coin hoards. It also deals with technical, chemical and numismatic aspects as well as it presents a new methodological approach to the analysis and interpretation of coin hoards. The Westeuropean silver coins as well as the Arabic coins have been determined and commented on by Brita Malmer and Bengt Hovén respectively. In the article of Oddy and Meyers the Helgö gold finds have provided the stimulus for a general program of analyses of gold from Sweden from the 3rd to the 8th centuries with a view to determining whether the composition of the gold was subject to any debasement. The analyses have shown that there was a progressive use of an increasingly wide range of gold alloys for jewellery in Sweden from the third/fourth centur

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Author

Bengt E. Hovén, Ola Kyhlberg, Brita Malmer, Pär Hallinder, Hanne Flyge, Jørn Randrup, W. A. Oddy, V. E. G. Meyer, N. D. Meeks

Publisher

Almqvist & Wiksell International

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9789174021349

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Archaeology, Humanities