The Symposium will take place virtually using Jitsi Meet, a free and open-source video chat platform that can be accessed from your web browser. Before the event starts, all registered participants will be sent an email invitation containing the platform URL and password. To join the meeting, simply follow the link, enter a display name and the password, and click ‘Join meeting’.

To register for the conference, please register your attendance through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/114544878816/. If you have any questions, please email the organisers, Dr Fraser McNair and Dr Murray Andrews, at SCBIcoinagesymposium@gmail.com.

(Cover image: Coin hoard from Ryther (North Yorkshire), c. 1487 (Image courtesy of York Museums Trust :: https://yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk :: CC BY-SA 4.0))

Programme :

11:00 – 11:20: Login

11:20 – 11:30 – Welcome – Murray Andrews and Fraser McNair

11:30 – 12:30 – Session 1

Very Small is Beautiful: Gaul and the Fifth-Sixth Century argentei. Overview and New Insights – Guillaume Blanchet – Université de Caen
Municipal Economies in Visigothic Hispania – Javier Martínez Jiménez – University of Cambridge

12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch

13:45 – 14:45 – Session 2

Coins and Political and Economic Unification in Middle Saxon Northumbria – John Luke Carson – Durham University
Hammers, Crosses, Ravens and Doves: Re-Examining Trends in “Pagan” Iconography – Arrun Thuraisingham – University of East Anglia

14:45 – 15:00 – Break

15:00 – 16:00 – Session 3

Patronage of Tokens in Venetian Confraternities in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries – Giulia Zanon – University of Leeds
How Much is Enough? How even a Handful of Coin Finds can help us reinterpret a Site and Landscape – Laura Burnett – University of Exeter

Source : Small Is Beatiful