Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man: Anglo-Saxon, Hiberno-Scandinavian, Hiberno-Manx and Other Coins and Currencies (to c. 1275)

Kristin Bornholdt Collins catalogues the Anglo-Saxon, Hiberno-Scandinavian, Hiberno-Manx and related coins and currencies held by the Manx Museum, extending to approximately 1275. The corpus places the Isle of Man within monetary networks linking England, Ireland, Scandinavia and the wider Irish Sea world.

Man’s Viking-Age economy did not depend on minted coins alone. This collection reveals substantial use of silver and other metals as bullion alongside coinage, and records evidence for a group of coins produced on the island itself in the eleventh century. Individual catalogue entries and illustrations make those monetary connections traceable in detail. The hardback is Volume 73 of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles.