ABSTRACT
Numismatic material is central to the economic and administrative history of the empire, as well as to the history of art and technology. For a useful brief introduction, see the remarks of Karayannopoulos and Weiss, in their Quellenkunde zur Geschichte von Byzanz (at pp. 172-8), with a detailed bibliography of available catalogues, literature on finds, evaluation and analysis, and historical interpretation and value; the introduction to Hendy's Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy; and the methodological considerations in Ph. Grierson, Numismatics (LondonOxford 1975) and 'Coinage and Money in the Byzantine Empire 498-ca 1090', in Moneta e scambi nell 'alto medioevo (Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo 8. Spoleto 1961) 411-53. Particularly relevant here is M. Restie, Kunst und byzantinische Milnzpriigung von Justinian 1. bis zum Bilderstreit (Texte und Forschungen zur byzantinischen-neugriechischen Philologie 47. Athens 1964).1
Coins and the Economy
