Stockholm Conference, 5-7 November 2015
Held 5-7 November in The Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm the Early Medieval Imitational Coinages Conference was attended by over fifty participants from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, UK and USA; twenty-three papers were presented. Special focus was given also to the origin of Germanic coinages (tribal and early state) as imitations of Roman and Early Byzantine coins during the Migration Period and on the threshold of the Early Medieval Period. The subject of barbarous imitations in Scandinavian solidus hoards was addressed by Svante Fischer from Uppsala University; formalist and substantivist views on the economic and social role of imitations were compared by Florin Curta from the University of Florida; Aleksander Bursche (University of Warsaw) discussed the origins of Germanic coinage, Gothic in particular.
