The Economy, Fiscal Administration and Coinage of Byzantium

Variorum
Michael F. Hendy
ISBN: 0860782530
price: $105.95   hardcover

Contents: Introduction; Economy and state in Late Roman and Early Byzantium; Byzantium, 1081-1204; "Byzantium, 1081-1204": the economy revisited; Mint and fiscal administration, A.D 305-24; Aspects of coin production and fiscal administration in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine period; The administration of mints and treasuries, 4th to 7th centuries, with appendix on silver plate; From public to private: Western barbarian coinages; On the administrative basis of the Byzantine coinage, c. 400-c. 900, and the reforms of Heraclius; Light weight solidi, tetartera, and the Book of the Perfect; Michael IV and Harold Hardrada; The Gornoslav hoard, the emperor Frederick I, and Bachkovo; Production, silver and circulation of the 12th century Byzantine trachy; Index.