ProgramSilver and Gold for the EmpireWorkshop

20 June 2024

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This workshop explores the role of mining and minting in the western Mediterranean world at the end of the Long Antiquity. It looks at the three large regional and political entities, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and Frankish Western Europe. A special focus is on the spatial, political, and economic dimensions of mints and mines.

Where have the mines on the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa and in Frankish been situated? Who was able to exploit them? How long did they provide silver and gold? Also, where have the mints been located? What are the commercial and administrative networks that conveyed them to the mints? Why was silver processed into coins, as bullion for trade and for regional monetary circulation? How have the mints been related to the commercial and state organization and who held the agency?

We cordially invite you to our hybrid workshop "Silver and Gold for the Empire" organized by Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann (RomanIslam Center, Universität Hamburg), which will take place on Thursday June 20, 2024, at Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers Allee 1, Rm 11 – meeting room.

To attend online or in person please register by June 16, 2024 with romanislam"AT"uni-hamburg.de. 

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