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R egensburg, W andalgarius and the novi denarii : C harlemagne's monetary reform revisited
Author(s) -
Garipzanov Ildar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
early medieval europe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1468-0254
pISSN - 0963-9462
DOI - 10.1111/emed.12133
Subject(s) - contextualization , context (archaeology) , period (music) , history , ancient history , art , archaeology , philosophy , aesthetics , interpretation (philosophy) , linguistics
Until now, P hilip G rierson's tentative dating of C harlemagne's monetary reform to 793/4 has been generally accepted. His dating was based not only on numismatic evidence but also on his attempt to set this event in the context of C harlemagne's activities from 792 to 794. This traditional date of the reform does not, however, take into account evidence provided by C odex S angallensis 731 , in which the scribe W andalgarius drew the image of a post‐reform coin around mid‐ O ctober 793. Based on this evidence as well as the historical contextualization of C harlemagne's stay in R egensburg in 791–3, this paper attributes the introduction of the novi denarii to the period between the autumn of 792 and the early autumn of 793, when his court was located in R egensburg.