Königliche Münzhoheit und Münzprivilegien im Karolingischen Reich und die Entwicklung in der sächsischen und fränkischen Zeit. I. Die karolingische Zeit

Abstract

A contribution to the history of the regalia in the Middle Ages, written as a study in legal and constitutional history and of interest to numismatics for that very reason. Its aim is to show the royal order of rule, that is what was lawful in the striking of coin, independently of the usurpations of right that occurred in every age. Starting from the unrestricted minting sovereignty of the king as established by Pippin and Charlemagne, the work follows the minting privileges of the Carolingian and then of the Saxon and Salian periods in two parts, and asks after the nature and extent of the rights granted to ecclesiastical and later to secular princes. The numismatic theory of stages put forward by Soetbeer does, in the author's view, only partial justice to that development.

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Volz, Peter: Königliche Münzhoheit und Münzprivilegien im Karolingischen Reich und die Entwicklung in der sächsischen und fränkischen Zeit. I. Die karolingische Zeit. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 21 (1971), pp. 157–186.

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