Acuñación monetaria y organización administrativa en la "Gallaecia" tardoantigua
ISSN: 0514-7336
Year of publication: 2004
Issue: 57
Pages: 367-375
Type: Article
More publications in: Zephyrus: Revista de prehistoria y arqueología
Abstract
The high number of Visigothic mints in Gallaecia, approximately between the years 585 and 650, has been traditionally related to either probable military campaigns or the continuity in gold mining. This paper states that they must be understood as an administrative-type phenomenon: a consequence of the assimilation by the Visigothic kingdom of the previous Sueve territorial scheme, articulated in a decentralised way through a high number of centres distributed along the whole provincial territory. This scheme crashed with that one known and used by the Visigoths.