Aproximación a la circulación monetaria en la península ibérica y las islas baleares durante los siglos V y VI : la incidencia de las emisiones vándalas y byzantinas

Abstract

Abstract. - This article is concerned with monetary behaviour in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands during the 5th and 6th centuries. This period has usually been seen as one marked by a high degree of monetary impoverishment, due to the irregular and erratic way in which imperial coin reached Hispania and the combination of political instability and territorial désintégration which prevailed there. That picture of the currency can now be revised in the light of a comprehensive inventory of finds of Vandalic and Byzantine issues, coin-weights, and contemporany strikings from the Peninsula itself, together with a study of their archaeological contexts. From the latter, it can be seen that the use of coin as money continued well into the period, albeit in the form of issues of the late Roman Empire.