Daily Medieval

Let me explain how you can turn a finite number of metal coins into more coins. You may have seen medieval coins that weren't entirely r...

Many Viking coin hoards included coins from far afield, especially Islamic dirhams , such as in the Spillings Hoard . The Spillings Hoard al...

We have previously mentioned the dinar   here and here . Usually of gold, it was used alongside the dirham , usually of silver and of a les...

Let us talk about coinage, specifically the solidus . Its plural was solidi ; also known as the bezant  (named for Byzantium, the earlier na...

Part of the Tutbury Hoard The sudden acquisition of wealth can change people. When coins started to be found in. the River Dove in 1831...

The coins were found in casks in the River Dove Workers in 1831, while repairing a mill-race on the Dove River, found a chunk of mud-ca...

Edward I penny from the Colchester Hoard Among the treasures found accidentally by digging or deliberately by people wielding metal det...