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EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Let's see who can come closest to the attribution done by the folks from whom I purchased these nice pieces... (RobP - please give others a chance before you get the inevitable gold star. image )

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  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭
    I'll give it a shot --

    The first looks like a copper styca(?) of Aethelred II, dating around 830-43.

    Added: Moneyer- Eanred.
  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭
    Second looks like a pointed helmet Cnut, 1024-30. I can't make sense of the legend though, this is where we need RobP to chime in with details.

    Added: Is that PVLNOD MO EOFR? Not sure, but EOF(R) was used for York mint, wasn't it?
  • EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    FilthyBroke - great job so far. I have one minor, technical, adjustment to your responses so far: the styca is a copper alloy (aka, bronze).

    Anyone else?

    I gotta say... I love these coins. Old, historical, cool as heck, and relative to light-side fairly cheap. And, best of all, most folks won't rag on me for keeping them un-slabbed.

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  • EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Added: Is that PVLNOD MO EOFR? Not sure, but EOF(R) was used for York mint, wasn't it? >>



    Give the man a star! EOF(R) stands for Eoferwic.

    How does one get a hater to stop hating?

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  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭


    << <i>I gotta say... I love these coins. Old, historical, cool as heck, and relative to light-side fairly cheap. And, best of all, most folks won't rag on me for keeping them un-slabbed.

    image >>



    The coinage quality took a huge hit during this era, but it's still one of my favorite periods to learn about. I'd love to get some of those Anglo-Saxon coins, my earliest right now is a Henry II tealby.
  • EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The coinage quality took a huge hit during this era, but it's still one of my favorite periods to learn about. I'd love to get some of those Anglo-Saxon coins, my earliest right now is a Henry II tealby. >>



    I may eventually extend this pursuit to Bosworth, or even the Tudors, but for now I think I will stick with Anglo-Saxon coinage. Money is tight for me, and CICF is approaching what the near certainty of expensive talers being dangled before my eyes. Still, I'm drooling over a handful of Anglo-Saxon pennies that are of nice quality.

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  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭
    There's some great stuff to be had, but unfortunately if you go back much earlier than Aethelred II they start to get quite pricey. That's why I'm into Plantaganet coinage right now, relatively inexpensive compared to earlier coins. Eventually I'll work my way back to the earlier stuff, maybe when the dollar/pound margin narrows?
  • EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Every time I look at Plantagent coinage, I can't help think of Henry V's speech to his troops before battle at Agincourt. I get chills. Ooh... image

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  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭
    It's the Henry II/ Thomas Becket story that sold me on them....and of course Braveheart.image
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Every time I look at Plantagent coinage, I can't help think of Henry V's speech to his troops before battle at Agincourt. I get chills. Ooh... image >>




    Agincourt! My favorite battle vs. the Frenchies.
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