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This article argues that the stories of Tarpeia and of Manlius Capitolinus are variations on a single, historically attested concern about internal enemies on the Capitoline. Moreover, the unusual presentation of these stories in Ovid in particular can be explained by various chemical properties of the mint, most likely located near the temple of Juno Moneta. Concerns about the safety of the mint in the late Republic may have driven authorial interest in these tales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During the canonical recognition of Jean Bassand's partially skeletonized mummy, digital X-ray examination and computed tomography scanning revealed the presence of 5 coins from Italian mints (15th-16th century). The coins were recovered endoscopically: in the pelvis 3 quattrini of the Republic of Florence (one of which with signs of withdrawal from circulation) dating after 1472, and 1 cavallo of Aquila coined under Charles VIII of Valois (1495-1496); in the skull 1 quattrino of Pier Luigi Farnese, duke of Castro (1537-1545). These items, possibly survived from a richer deposit, may represent part of the offerings, which have become chronological indicators of ceremonies (50th and 100th anniversaries). Probably, they were intentionally repositioned during further inspections following earthquakes (1703) or desecrations (1529, 1799). The study aims to establish the period of production and free flow - in the Aquila's area - of these coins, in order to determine possible historiographical relationships with the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the transition of the Guanajuato Mint from New Spain to independent Mexico. It proposes a study of the institutional strategies that allowed this minting center to emerge, become institutionalized, and renew itself between 1812 and 1825. The central argument has two parts. First, I emphasize the warlike and political circumstances of the monetary transition that led to the legalization of the mint. Second, I show that the first trials of institutional management of the mint, including the lease to a foreign company, led to the renewal of the mint, without a clear predominance of any of the parties involved. In dialogue with economic-history scholarship, the essay maintains that the wear and tear of the war of independence encouraged monetary institutionalization initiatives, aspects of which still need to be studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prominent economists have supposed that the private production of full‐bodied gold or silver coins is inefficient: due to information asymmetry, private coins will be chronically low‐quality or underweight. An examination of private mints during gold rushes in the US in the years 1830–63, drawing on contemporary accounts and numismatic literature, finds otherwise. While some private gold mints produced underweight coins, from incompetence or fraudulent intent, such mints did not last long. Informed by newspapers about the findings of assays, money‐users systematically abandoned substandard coins in favour of full‐weight coins. Only competent and honest mints survived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines three eighteenth-century projects to replace shopkeeper tokens in Spanish America with copper coins minted in Spain. The proyectistas (projectors) argued that copper coins would promote commerce, alleviate poverty, and restore the king's monopoly on minting in his American possessions. They encountered opposition, however, from local officials and colonial elites and gained little traction before the outbreak of the wars for independence in the early nineteenth century. In tracing these projects and the responses they generated, this article argues that Spain's American subjects held diverse understandings of money and value and that their divergent views highlight the uneven bonds of trust that linked Spanish Americans to the Crown and to one another in the late-colonial era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that the history of coins in the High Middle Ages leaves several questions unanswered. Topics include considered that there are mint names in the documents to which no real coins that have been handed down can be assigned, and vice versa there are coins from this period, primarily bracteates, which cannot be assigned to a specific mint with absolute certainty.

In the period from 2005 to 2007, due to the widening of the Drmno strip-mine that endangered the eastern Viminacium necropolis, rescue archaeological research was conducted at the site “Kod koraba”. During the research, a total of 210 graves was excavated: 78 inhumations and 132 cremations, with 90 coins minted in the period between the 1st and the second half of the 4th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article talks about the approval of several acts to establish a mint and regulating the coins of the U.S. Topics discussed include procuring the sums of money necessary for the exigencies of Government, and information on Act for apportioning Representative among the several States, and convoluted financial schemes of Financial Founding Fathers. It also describes about the uniform national organization of state militias.

The article presents a report on the symbolism of two Oberharzer coins in Germany. Topics discussed here include mints of the Upper Harz high quality silver coins, mint master Rudolph Bornemann, and personification of happiness. Also being discussed is the realistic resin lanscape, and the criterion of measurability.

This article argues for a departure from previous conceptual frameworks that have categorised early modern coining offences as ‘social crimes’ similar to poaching, smuggling and riot. It seeks instead to complement the work undertaken by Malcolm Gaskill, Carl Wennerlind and Nicholas Tosney by contributing to their holistic interpretations of the offences from a variety of legal, economic and cultural perspectives. Through an analysis of elite views, cheap print, and the textual content of Mint depositions and trial summaries, this article argues that the ways in which contemporaries understood the practicalities of clipping, counterfeiting, and uttering as illicit depended largely on individual factors. These included the morality of work and labour, and specific roles and relationships of coiners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This article provides a time series of coin and money supply estimates for six hundred years of English history. Two main estimation methods are proposed. The first (the direct method) is used to measure the value of government‐provided, legal‐tender coin supply only. Two varieties of the direct method are proposed. Additionally, an indirect method is proposed which relies on a combination of information about nominal GDP with an assumption regarding the evolution of velocity in time, and which can be used to calculate coin supply and M2. Both methods rely on benchmark values known for certain years, but no particular benchmark is determinant for the results. The new methodologies set out here may serve as a blueprint for a similar reconstruction of coin and money supply series for other economies for which analogous data are available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even at the beginning of his long and turbulent reign (978–1016), Æthelred II's coinage was an impressive institution. Mint-places across the kingdom issued silver pennies of identical design, each sporting an image of the king surrounded by his name and title while the reverse named both the man responsible for manufacture (the moneyer) and the location where he produced the coin. Æthelred and his subjects inherited this currency from Edgar (959–75) and Edward the Martyr (975–8), but were not content to rest on their laurels. Indeed, the reign of Æthelred saw the evolution of the most ambitious form of coinage yet seen in England. Nationwide recoinages became frequent for the first time since the ninth century, and the coinage emerged as a potent tool of symbolic expression. It probably also helped attract the attention of Viking aggressors, and facilitated the collection and transfer of tribute. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the special issue on topics including criticism of the theories about Old English meter, growing number of mints in the kingdom of King AEthelred II, and the fading separation between Englishman and Dane population.

The article provides information on the architecture of mint of Mexico during 1570 to 1850 including historial archeology, use of tezontle materials of various sizes and manufacture of circular currency. Topics include archaeological excavation, reconstruction works and development of industrial and commercial routes.