Isotopic Ag-Cu-Pb record of silver circulation through 16th-18th century Spain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9002-9007

  Desaulty, Anne Marie ^a,b,c   Telouk, Philippe ^a,b,c   Albalat, Emmanuelle ^a,b,c   Albarède, Francis ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

MC ICPMS; Price revolution; Silver coinage; Spanish Americas

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ISOTOPE; LEAD; SILVER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; METALLURGY; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGES; MONEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER COINAGE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

COPPER; EUROPE; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; MEXICO; NUMISMATICS; SILVER; SPAIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79959370431     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018210108     Document Type: Article

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