Early Medieval Money Mystery Solved

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Interesting research out from researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who analyzed early medieval coinage from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. They discovered that Byzantine bullion made up Europe's early adoption of silver coinage in the 3d to 7th centuries AD, but then the Frankish mine in Melle rose to prominence from 750-820 AD, supplying silver coinage in the UK and continental Europe.

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-early-medieval-money-mystery.html