A fifth-century purse assemblage with coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg reconsidered
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- Anna Flückiger, Vince Van Thienen (UGent) and Sofie Vanhoutte (UGent)
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- When base metal coinage ceased arriving in the Northwestern Roman Provinces c. 400 AD, no new currency was introduced. For their everyday exchanges, people may have turned to different practices, or materials, in cases where the still-circulating coins were perhaps not fulfilling demand. This paper examines an early 5th-century burial from the coastal fort at Oudenburg, Belgium. Among the male adornment in burial A-104, the purse assemblage filled with a number of coins and fragmented base metal items stands out. Was the scrap metal used for exchanges? The discussion of the coins and metal items, amongst which their weights, reveals their possible economic functions, as well as the potential in further analysing late Roman and early medieval purse assemblages.
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- economy, late roman, nortwestern provinces, use-life, frontiers, burial archaeology, numismatics, Saxon shore, Late Antiquity, monetary economics, small finds, Saxon Shore, litus Saxonicum, Oudenburg
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01K6AEMKT0C0G8MKHME4YC4Y83
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- Flückiger, Anna, et al. “A Fifth-Century Purse Assemblage with Coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg Reconsidered.” BRITANNIA, 2026, pp. 1–22, doi:10.1017/S0068113X26100695.
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- Flückiger, A., Van Thienen, V., & Vanhoutte, S. (2026). A fifth-century purse assemblage with coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg reconsidered. BRITANNIA, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X26100695
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- Flückiger, Anna, Vince Van Thienen, and Sofie Vanhoutte. 2026. “A Fifth-Century Purse Assemblage with Coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg Reconsidered.” BRITANNIA, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X26100695.
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- Flückiger, Anna, Vince Van Thienen, and Sofie Vanhoutte. 2026. “A Fifth-Century Purse Assemblage with Coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg Reconsidered.” BRITANNIA: 1–22. doi:10.1017/S0068113X26100695.
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- 1.Flückiger A, Van Thienen V, Vanhoutte S. A fifth-century purse assemblage with coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg reconsidered. BRITANNIA. 2026;1–22.
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- [1]A. Flückiger, V. Van Thienen, and S. Vanhoutte, “A fifth-century purse assemblage with coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg reconsidered,” BRITANNIA, pp. 1–22, 2026.
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author = {{Flückiger, Anna and Van Thienen, Vince and Vanhoutte, Sofie}},
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journal = {{BRITANNIA}},
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language = {{eng}},
pages = {{1--22}},
title = {{A fifth-century purse assemblage with coins and Hackbronze from Oudenburg reconsidered}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X26100695}},
year = {{2026}},
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