Germanische Helme in westgotischen Münzbildern

Abstract

Visigothic archaeology made great progress because numerous cemeteries were uncovered in Castile whose finds give good knowledge of the personal ornament then worn; weapons were hardly found and only few coins, imitations of Byzantine solidi and trientes. In parallel, Visigothic numismatics grew into a valuable auxiliary discipline for cultural history: the number of known mints rose from sixty-one in Aloïss Heiss to seventy-nine. The position of the cemeteries shows that the people did not scatter over the whole peninsula but settled compactly in roughly Old Castile. For numismatics it follows that the often primitive issues did not come from Visigothic hands but from Romance workshops, which were content with a stylised royal bust.

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Suggested citation

Reinhart, Wilhelm: Germanische Helme in westgotischen Münzbildern. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 2 (1950/51), pp. 43–46, Tf.2.

Subject tags

Late Antiquity Middle Ages Iconography Mint history Spain