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What use is a coin in this day and age? Historians like Dr Rory Naismith find them exceedingly useful. ????

For example, Historians have theorised that bullion from the Byzantine Empire fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-seventh century. Now laser ablation analysis on surviving Anglo-Saxon silver 'pennies' has provided scientific proof that this was the case. This broke England's reliance on gold and ushered in a new style of money that would last for a millennia.

The results also tracked political and economic changes within continental Europe, as the coins from Constantinople came to be replaced with silver from Charlemagne's mines.

Tap the link @cambridgeuniversity's bio to dig deeper or go to https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/medieval-money-mystery-solved

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