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Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
V. M. Potin
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Description for Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
This volume completes publication of the Anglo-Saxon component of the rich and diverse coin collection built up in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. It lists and illustrates over 1,100 late Anglo-Saxon pennies now held in the Hermitage Museum, the bulk of them found in Russian hoards deposited during the early Middle Ages. Series: Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles. Num Pages: 140 pages, 47 black and white plates. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3F; HDD; WCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 194 x 15. Weight in Grams: 624.
This volume completes publication of the Anglo-Saxon component of the rich and diverse coin collection built up in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. It lists and illustrates over 1,100 late Anglo-Saxon pennies now held in the Hermitage, the bulk of them found in Russian hoards deposited during the early Middle Ages. Among these fine and well-preserved coins are many important rarities representing short-lived types and ephemeral mint-towns. As such it is an important resource for scholars of late Anglo-Saxon history and coinage, and for those interested in the currency which circulated in northern and eastern Europe in the Viking Age. ... Read more
This volume completes publication of the Anglo-Saxon component of the rich and diverse coin collection built up in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. It lists and illustrates over 1,100 late Anglo-Saxon pennies now held in the Hermitage, the bulk of them found in Russian hoards deposited during the early Middle Ages. Among these fine and well-preserved coins are many important rarities representing short-lived types and ephemeral mint-towns. As such it is an important resource for scholars of late Anglo-Saxon history and coinage, and for those interested in the currency which circulated in northern and eastern Europe in the Viking Age. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
Series
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles
Number of Pages
140
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780197265017
SKU
V9780197265017
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About V. M. Potin
Dr Vsevelod Potin (1918-2005) began working part-time in the Numismatic Department in the Hermitage while still a student in 1940, later becoming curator of West European coins in 1959 and Director from 1974 until his retirement in 1998. He published extensively on the large 10th-13th-century element of the collection, including its Anglo-Saxon coins, and was for decades one of the ... Read more
Reviews for Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
excellent comparative material for anyone (chiefly specialists) wishing to identify a coin or place it in the context of its issue.
John Naylor, Journal of Medieval Archaeology
John Naylor, Journal of Medieval Archaeology