"Mint workers were combined in the Lombardo-Byzantine fashion into colleges, over which counts were expected to keep a watchful eye. Later, Louis the Pious was to adopt the imperial sanction of the loss of a hand for false moneyers and to punish with exile and confiscation anyone striking coins outside state workshops."
Georges Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy (1969).
[Translated by Howard B. Clarke.]
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