The seminar room at the Fitzwilliam Museum was full to capacity for
this now regular, biennial, event. Attendees included numismatists, collectors,
archaeologists, detectorists, senior academics and students. Many who had
travelled from overseas specifically to attend the event, were able to join in
an affable meal on the previous evening. The theme was 'Mark Blackburn and His
Legacy' and the papers, as one might expect of this inspirational teacher, were
of the highest order. After Simon Keynes’ personal reflections on Mark Blackburn,
former students Rory Naismith and Andy Woods spoke respectively on the mints of
London and Dublin.
The second session, on early Anglo-Saxon
coinage, included Anna Gannon on sceats, John Hines on the origins of ‘sceat’
and its denomination and Gareth Williams on the Staffordshire Hoard. After
lunch, during which Grunal the Moneyer
gave a demonstration of coin making, Ron Bude, visiting from the US, and
Stewart Lyon opened new avenues of discovery advancing work commenced
respectively in the 1980s and ‘90s by James Booth and Liz Pirie.
The third session gave Dot Broughton and Kristin
Bornholdt-Collins the chance to describe the latest findings from the
significant hoards found respectively at Silverdale and Furness. The final
session gave some of the Continental visitors - Florence Codine & Guillaume
Sarah and Arent Pol - an opportunity to explain their current research.
Overall this was a most entertaining, full
and informative day and gave attendees the chance to socialise and discuss
their current work.
See also http://semc2012.blogspot.co.uk/p/newsletter-april-2012.html.
See also http://semc2012.blogspot.co.uk/p/newsletter-april-2012.html.
Call for papers, Studies in Early Medieval Coinage, volume 3
Studies in Early
Medieval Coinage, Volume 3 will include
papers from the 2010 and 2012 symposia in early medieval coinage, both held at
the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The deadline for submissions is the end of
2012. There will be no extension to this generous allowance. I have already
received pledges for twelve articles and space may be limited, so please do not
delay in letting me know if you want to contribute. The major bibliography now
prepared and under review may form a separate volume.
Studies
in Early Medieval Coinage, Volume 3 is to be published by Boydell
& Brewer. Previous volumes are available from them at http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/. Please support this
worthy journal; this entire initiative will be jeopardised if the publication
fails.
Call for speakers: medieval
money and coinage 2013
I am intending to hold another full day symposium on medieval money and
coinage (roughly AD 973–1500) during the Leeds International Medieval Congress,
1-4 July 2013, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/. Please send me have an abstract and brief
biography at t.abramson@ntlworld.com if you wish to speak or organise an
individual session of 3-4 speakers. While this seems early, proposals for
individual papers must be submitted by 31 August 2012 and session proposals by
30 September 2012. I’m not sure how well numismatics and monetary history can
be made to fit the thematic strand of the Congress which is ‘Pleasure’. I await
your creative suggestions. Nine papers from the 13th July 2010
symposium are currently being published in The
Yorkshire Numismatist volume 4.
Tony Abramson,
April 2012.
Press Release:
Money & Medals, SNC,
Celator.
