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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.
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.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Anti-Corruption Unit began an investigation after a member of the public reported him; he was arrested in November 2015, [3] and charged with theft and three charges of handling criminal property in May 2016, [9] [3] after pictures of the stolen coins were found on his mobile phone which matched with coins stocked by a ...
An indisputable modern name for these coins is Hochrandpfennig ("high rim pfennig") [6] or Randpfennig ("rim pfennig"). The different names indicate an unclear position in medieval numismatics. Their anonymity and their seemingly primitive coinage led to them being regarded as a separate coin group outside of the normal imperial coinage.
A treasure inquest has been opened into the 1,400-year-old hoard of 131 gold coins, discovered between 2014 and 2020.
The hoard consists of 5,252 silver coins, of which 5,251 are whole and one is a portion of a coin that had been cut in half.They date from the first half of the eleventh century, and include many coins from the reigns of two Anglo-Saxon kings, Æthelred the Unready (reigned 978–1013 and 1014–1016) and Cnut the Great (reigned 1016–1035). [2]
An early medieval Anglo-Saxon gold thrymsa (or shilling) coin from c. 650–675 AD. The thrymsa (Old English: þrymsa) was a gold coin minted in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England. It originated as a copy of Merovingian tremisses and earlier Roman coins with a high gold content. Continued debasement between the 630s and the 650s reduced the ...