My final newp from NYINC 2013: an Anglo-Saxon penny

EVillageProwler

Harold I Harefoot

I'm posting this from my iPhone from my hotel room, so someone please help and upload the coin's image.

For some reason, this coins from this reign almost always come poorly struck. This piece is the opposite. The surfaces look lustrous under a glass, and with nice toning. I disagree with the seller's assessed grade.

I'm very fortunate that the show is winding down for me, since I'm making Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland look good.



EVP

Zohar

Very neat theme and true scarcity. The CNG write up is very educating.

thatoneguy

Very nice coin!

EVillageProwler

Thanks, guys.

I want to point out that 26 years after the passing of Harold I, Harold II Godwinson (of Wessex) died at Hastings and William I, a Norman, became king of England.

Eadgar, of Wessex, became king of all England in 959. The Anglo-Saxon (and, briefly, Anglo-Saxon-Danish) Kingdom of England only existed for 107 years before passing to the Normans, thus laying the second seed for the first Hundred Years War.

Does anyone know what was the first seed to the first Hundred Years War?

EVP

SYRACUSIAN

Undoubtedly the first medieval English coin posted here that I really like! Congrats EVP!


So, this is supposed to be only a gVF? I'm a complete novice to these and frankly, most examples posted, usually AG-G if not less, tend to appall me.

MacCrimmon

Cripes, D! You're up early.


Nice Harefoot, btw, EVP.

EVillageProwler

Dmitri,

Let me stress that I disagree with the seller's grade.

EVP

Zohar

What do the letters mean/read?

EVillageProwler

<< <i>What do the letters mean/read? >>



From CNG:

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Harold I Harefoot. 1035-1040. AR Penny (Silver, 18mm, 1.06 g 12), Fleur-de-Lis type (BMC v, Hild. , Winchester; Godwine, moneyer, struck 1038-1040. + HΛRO: •LD R.E Diademed bust left; scepter before. Rev. + GO DPIN E ON PI(NE) Voided long cross; pellet in circle in center, fleur-de-lis (flanked by pellets) in angles. SCBI 40 (Stockholm), 1463 = Hild. 1016 var. (PIN); BMC -; North 803; SCBC 1165. Well struck and toned. Good very fine.

The obverse says Harold King (starting at the cross at 12 o'clock: HAROLD RE). The reverse says the moneyer is Godwine (GODPINE) at Winchester (PINE), starting at the cross at roughly 1 o'clock.