Weight money economy

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In weight economies , metal, especially silver , served as a means of payment in the form of bars (often divided according to weight requirements), pieces of jewelry and foreign coins .

With the coins, too, the weight alone was decisive. The buyer and seller determined the silver weight by double weighing. In the Middle Ages, there were pronounced weight-money economies in the Slavic and Scandinavian Baltic Sea region.

See also: Sachsenpfennig / names of the pfennig type - weight money economy of the Vikings

literature

  • Gerald Görmer: Money economy and silver burial during the 9th to 13th century in the Baltic Sea region. In: Monetary History News. Volume 41, 2006, ISSN  0435-1835 , pp. 165-167.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Görmer 2006, p. 165.