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

EVillageProwler · January 12, 2013 4:11AM

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 · January 12, 2013 7:11AM

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

thatoneguy · January 12, 2013 8:10AM

Very nice coin!

EVillageProwler · January 12, 2013 10:45AM

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 · January 12, 2013 10:53AM

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 · January 12, 2013 10:58AM

Cripes, D! You're up early.

Nice Harefoot, btw, EVP.

EVillageProwler · January 12, 2013 11:04AM

Dmitri,

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

EVP

Zohar · January 12, 2013 11:12AM

What do the letters mean/read?

EVillageProwler · January 12, 2013 11:20AM

<< <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.

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

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