Hines, J. (2010). Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 90. Vol 90, pp. 153-173. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581510000089.
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Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England | |||||||
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scillingas, sceattas and pæningas | |||||||
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 90 | |||||||
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London | |||||||
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90 | |||||||
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514 | |||||||
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153 - 173 | |||||||
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The seventh-century vernacular laws from the kingdoms of Kent and Wessex specify fines or compensation payments using units of account that have given us familiar terms in the numismatics of this period: scillingas (shillings), sceattas and pæningas (pennies). In light of the use of cognate words in Gothic and Old High German, and the comparative values given in the Old English law-codes themselves and in the fifth-century Theodosian Code, it is suggested that these represent a regular and durable bimetallic system correlating values in gold and silver. This proposition is examined further against the evidence of weighing-sets from sixth- and early seventh-century Anglo-Saxon graves, and it is argued that the results give greater and more precise meaning to the use of gold and silver in Early Anglo-Saxon artefacts, such as the great gold buckle from Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. | |||||||
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2010 | |||||||
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21 Mar 2011 |