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MAKING MONEY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

oreover, in England, Francia, Visigothic Spain and some other regions, the minting network became highly localized, and less obviously responsive to the needs of centralized state needs. This more dispersed set-up is suggestive of some of the forces

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