ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to offer explanations on why and how coins were handled in the church and presents a view into the theological and cultural practices where coins came to play an important part as symbolic tokens of faith and devotion. The timeframe is primarily the late Middle Ages, and the sources discussed to a large extent come from Denmark. The specific Danish context gives a certain bias to the material, but it is to be argued that most of the conclusions reached pertain to large parts of the late medieval world of Northern Europe.
