Los inicios de la datación explícita de las monedas en el Occidente medieval cristiano (siglos XII-XIV). Una excepcionalidad con motivos

Abstract

The aim of this paper attempts to ascertain the reasons why a few series of Christian coinswere explicitly dated in the medieval West, specifically prior to 1400.To do so, we will begin bylooking at the precedents to these dates, which are the coins made by Christian rulers between the11th and 13th centuries in Sicily, Spain and the Holy Land, but written in Arabic and datedfundamentally by the Hegira, although some bore the Hispanic Era, double dating and even only theYear of the Lord. Subsequently they passed to the Castilian, Danish and German series which are thesubject of this research, each one with its own specificities and which show with the explicit date, itwas something totally unusual, and that its appearance indicates without any doubt the need to reflectwith it an event of singular importance for the minting power. Subsequently they passed to theCastilian, Danish and German series, the subject of this work, each with its own specificities andwhich show with the placement of the explicit date that it was something totally unusual, whichundoubtedly indicates the need to reflect with it an event of singular importance for the mintingpower