Divina moneta : coins in religion and ritual / edited by Nanouschka Myrberg Burstrom and Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Money in rituals and practice -- Death by deposition?: Coins and ritual in the late Iron Age and early Roman transition in northern Gaul / David Wigg-Wolf -- The impact of coinage on ritual offerings during the late Iron Age (c. 250-25/15 bc) / Michael Nick -- Coins and baptism in late antiquity: written sources and numismatic evidence -- Reconsidered / Claudia Perassi -- Pilgrims, pennies and the ploughzone: folded coins in medieval Britain / Richard Kelleher -- Why money does grow on trees: the British coin-tree custom / Ceri Houlbrook -- Coins as secular and sacred objects -- Coins as non-coins: the use and meaning of roman coins in religious contexts outside the empire / Helle W. Horsn�s -- Firmly I believe and truly: religious iconography on early Anglo-Saxon coins / Anna Gannon -- Pecuniary profanities?: Money, Christianity and demonstrative giving in the early Middle Ages / Rory Naismith -- Coins and the church in medieval England: votive and economic functions of money in religious contexts / Martin Allen -- Sacra moneta: divinity, purity, miracles and powers / Lucia Travaini -- The value and worth of offering -- Worthless?: the practice of depositing counterfeit coins in Roman votive contexts / Fleur Kemmers -- Scandinavian women in search of salvation: women's use of money in religion and -- Devotional practice / Svein H. Gullbekk -- A cheap salvation?: Post-Reformation offerings in Finnish churches / Frida Ehrnsten.