Overview

This volume is the first dedicated to the analysis of tokens ranging from the Neolithic until the modern age. The volume discusses tokens from different periods in detail, addressing the makers, users, types and contexts of these objects. Unpublished material is presented in several of the contributions. This comparative approach reveals the recurring characteristics of tokens across time, as well as their importance to human society.

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Author:   Antonino Crisà ,  Mairi Gkikaki ,  Clare Rowan
Publisher:   Royal Numismatic Society
Imprint:   Royal Numismatic Society
Volume:   57
ISBN:  

9780901405357

ISBN 10:   0901405353
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   30 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Antonino Crisa, Mairi Gkikaki & Clare Rowan The Invention of Tokens by Denise Schmandt-Besserat Some Notes on Athenian Bronze Tokens and Bronze Coinage in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC by Kenneth A. Sheedy Tokens Inside and Outside Excavation Contexts: Seeking the Origin. Examples of Clay Tokens from the Collections of the Athens Numismatic Museum by Stamatoula Makrypodi The Armour Tokens from the Athenian Agora by Martin Schafer A Rare Clay Token in Context: A Fortunate and Recorded Discovery from the Necropolis of Tindari (Messina, 1896) by Antonino Crisa Roman tesserae with Numerals: Some Thoughts on Iconography and Purpose by Alexa Kuter Lead Token Moulds from Rome and Ostia by Clare Rowan Tokens of Antinous from the Roman Province of Egypt by Denise Wilding Tokens in the Athenian Agora in the Third Century AD: Advertising Prestige and Civic Identity in Roman Athens by Mairi Gkikaki Using and Reusing Tokens: Some Remarks About Christian Graffiti on Contorniates by Cristian Mondello The Holme Cultram Abbey Series: English Medieval Tokens and a Cistercian Use Case by Kate Rennicks How Royal Tokens Constituted an Art Medium that Participated in the Monarchical System Between 1610 and 1661 by Sabrina Valin For Change and Charity: Identifying the Motivations and Characteristics of Issuers of Tokens in the British Isles in the Mid-Seventeenth Century by Laura Burnett 'Success to the Seventeen United Bright Stars': The Spithead Mutiny of 1797 Recorded on a Sailor's Love Token by Bridget Millmore The Politics of Token Economics, Then and Now by Bill Maurer Index

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Antonino Crisà is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Ghent University in Belgium, whose research focuses on the history of archaeology, particularly in Sicily. Mairi Gkikaki is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Warwick (UK), with a research project on the tokens of Athens. Clare Rowan is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick (UK), who works on Roman history, coins and tokens.

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