Bompaire, Marc
Some distinctive features of medieval coinage: Seigniorage and other innovations during the reign of Philip the Fair
- 2020.
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Free minting had a great influence on the way of issuing and using coins for financiary purposes during the Middle Ages. This paper focuses both on renovatio monetae (decry of currency and recoinage of the whole issues in circulation) and on some innovations like seigniorage at the time of Philip the Fair.