Newp: Anglo-Saxon hammered coinage

EVillageProwler

This piece is from the reign of Aethelred II, the Unrede. S-1148 (CRVX type), from Winchester mint. Beorhtnoth, moneyer. For those of you looking at the photo (dealer's), you will undoubtedly see that the coin has been slabbed by a TPG. Just to set the record straight, I bought it like this. The colors are rich, with the obverse iridescent and the reverse somewhat muted. To my eye, it is quite attractive.

For those who want a brief history of this piece, please refer to this previous thread (same ruler, but different type): S-1151

As you may also note, this piece (likely also a hoard piece) does NOT have the frequently found peck marks.

bronzemat

Its a beautiful coin.

Are you going to break it out of the slab?

EVillageProwler

<< <i>Its a beautiful coin.

Are you going to break it out of the slab? >>



Thanks. I have not decided if I wish to liberate it from its entombment. I have many hammered pieces, and they are mixed between slabbed and raw. I haven't decided yet, so for now however I get them that is how they will stay (as long as they stay in relatively inert environment).

EVP

DorkGirl

bronzemat

<< <i>

<< <i>Its a beautiful coin.

Are you going to break it out of the slab? >>



Thanks. I have not decided if I wish to liberate it from its entombment. I have many hammered pieces, and they are mixed between slabbed and raw. I haven't decided yet, so for now however I get them that is how they will stay (as long as they stay in relatively inert environment).

EVP >>



Nice, I bust out my ancients if they were purchased in plastic but I would have second thoughts if it ended up being a gold piece or high $ figure greek.

Swampboy

Awesome piece.
I really enjoy your hammered coin threads EVP.

EVillageProwler

<< <i>Awesome piece.
I really enjoy your hammered coin threads EVP.
>>



Thanks. On my way home from the Jersey shore today, I couldn't help let my mind wander. Where did it wander off to, you may ask...

I was thinking of how far the Angles, Saxons and Jutes have come in the thirteen centuries or so between the farthest geographic extent of the Roman Empire and the people who made my 1614 taler (see other thread). Pressured westward by the Huns, these Germanic tribes clashed headlong into Roman territorial intentions eastward across the Rhine and northward across the Danube rivers.

During this period, history gave us the destruction of an entire Roman legion in Teutoberg forest; the withdrawal of imperial military and governmental institutions from Britain; to the raiding of the island (by various tribes, including Angles, Saxons and Jutes) and subsequent invitation to the Angles, Saxons and Jutes to settle in the SE portion of the island (to defend against raiders comprised in part by the same Germanic tribes).

Continued intermingling of the Germanic tribes on the island with the now Christianized Celtic and Roman inhabitants also caused the Germanic tribes/kingdoms to themselves adopt Christianity and other forms of Roman civilization. Including coinage. Like the above pictured piece.

On the continent, history progressed same yet different. Language diverged, yet we still have Latin. Now distant cousins, the 17th century Saxons produced a taler, beautifully preserved, that now resides in the cabinet of an American with zero European ethnic heritage (and settling nearby in a bank vault with coinage by their Anglecynn).

Welcome to the 21st century, my friends.

EVP