Resumen de Muntdatasets en onze kennis van het muntwezen in de Lage Landen
This paper intends to illustrate the importance of databases on coin production for the general monetary history in the Low Countries. One of the reasons for these observations is the recent publication online (April 2017) of an impressive dataset with mintage figures in the Southern and Northern Low Countries from the 14th to the 18th century. It is argued that the intensive use of such precious tools can help to estimate the money supply, improve our knowledge of monetary metrology, contribute to understand the function of money as a medium of exchange, and finally allow to test the quality and randomness of different sources such as coin finds and cash lists of government receivers and collectors.
