ZECCA Mint of Venice Medieval Coinage BOOK NEW COINS Start Price USD 25.00 Current Price USD 25.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 18, 2008 End Time Saturday, October 18, 2008 Location Toronto, Ontario See more about 'ZECCA Mint of Venice Medieval Coinage BOOK NEW COINS' Description Please see our page to find more about us. ZECCA Mint of Venice Medieval Coinage BOOK NEW You are bidding on book in brand new condition: Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages (Published in Association With the American Numismatic Society) by Alan M. Stahl    Please see bellow for the table of contest and indexes. This book retails for US $79.00! No reserve auction, with low start, so please bid with confidence. Book Details: Hardcover, purple cloth: XV, 497 pages, illustrated through with many illustrations and figures; Dimensions (in inches): 1.31 x 9.47 x 6.43 Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore/London; ANS, New York; (February 2001) , ISBN: 080186383X Book DescriptionWithin a few months of assuming the position of curator of medieval coins at the American Numismatic Society in 1980, Alan M. Stahl was presented with a plastic bag containing a hoard of 5,000 recently discovered coins, most of which turned out to be from medieval Venice. The course of study of that hoard (and a later one containing more than 14,000 coins) led him to the Venetian archives, where he examined thousands of unpublished manuscripts. To provide an even more accurate account of how the Zecca mint operated in Venice in the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, Stahl commissioned scientific analyses of the coins using a variety of modern techniques, uncovering information about their content and how they had been manufactured. The resulting book, Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages, is the first to examine the workings of a premodern mint using extensive research in original documents as well as detailed study of the coins themselves. The first of the book's three sections traces the coinage of Venice from its origins in the ninth century as a minor, and unofficial, regional Italian coinage to its position at the dawn of the Renaissance as the dominant currency of Mediterranean trade. The second section, entitled "The Mint in the Life of Medieval Venice," illustrates the mechanisms of the control of bullion and the strategies for mint profit and explores the mint's role in Venetian trade and the emergence of a bureaucratized government. The third section, "Within the Mint," examines the physical operations that transformed raw bullion into coins and identifies the personnel of the mint, situating the holders of each position in the context of their social and professional backgrounds. Illustrated with photos of Venetian coinage from the world's major collections, Zecca also includes a listing of all holders of offices related to the medieval Venetian mint and summaries of all major finds of medieval Venetian coins. About the AuthorAlan M. Stahl served for twenty years as the curator of medieval coins for the American Numismatic Society, and is currently a visiting professor in the department of history at the University of Michigan. His previous books include The Merovingian Coinage of the Region of Metz and The Venetian Tornesello: A Medieval Colonial Coinage.  Please see picture and ask any question you may have. Winning bidder to make the payment by PayPal, International money order or check. Checks drawn in Canadian and US banks are accepted but subject to clear up to 7 business days . Please add US $9.00 for S/H for USA, $10.00 for Canadian addresses. International S/H will be US $14.00. Happy bidding.                   Powered by eBay Turbo Lister Place a Bid!