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A 1768 Ausbeutetaler of Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony from the Dresden Mint. The inscription reads THE BLESSING OF MINING / X A FINE MARCK. The history of Saxon coinage or Meissen-Saxon coinage comprises three major periods: the high medieval regional pfennig period (bracteate period), the late medieval pfennig period and the thaler period, which ended with the introduction of the ...
Coin of Offa, king of Mercia, 757-796, with the Latin legend OFFA REX MERCIOR; British coins still carry Latin inscriptions in the 21st century. In the latter part of the 8th century a new style of silver penny appeared in Anglo-Saxon England, thinner and commonly bearing the names of both the king and the moneyer who had struck it.
The West Norfolk Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins in England, comprising 132 gold coins [1] and four gold objects dating to around 610 AD, all found over a period of 29 years in West Norfolk.
English: Late Saxon silver penny of Edgar the Peaceful, King of All England dating to the period AD 959 - 973. Pre-reform. Early portait type (East Anglian style). Moneyer: Folchard. Without mint name. See: North, Vol. I, p. 110, no. 750. BMC V.
The Sachsenpfennig ("Saxon pfennig"), sometimes called the Wendenpfennig or the Hochrandpfennig ("high rim pfennig"), [1] was a well-known coin of the pfennig type minted in the eastern part of the Stem Duchy of Saxony during the 10th and 11th centuries.
The Bartgroschen ("beard groschen") was a Saxon coin minted in 1492 and 1493 and embossed with an image of the bearded Duke Frederick III, the Wise (1486–1525). A total of 205,000 pieces were struck [1] at the mints of Zwickau and Schneeberg. The groschen were the first Saxon coins with a portrait of the regent. [2]
A treasure inquest has been opened into the 1,400-year-old hoard of 131 gold coins, discovered between 2014 and 2020. Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins in England unearthed in Norfolk Skip ...
Anglo-Saxon Coins Part I. Early Silver and Gold Coins By A. Gannon 2011 64 GROSVENOR MUSEUM, CHESTER; Part II. Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest Coins to 1180. By H.E. Pagan 2012 65 NORWEGIAN COLLECTIONS; Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016. By ELINA SCREEN 2013 66. NORWEGIAN COLLECTIONS; Part II. Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins, 1016–1279.