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The German Reich exercised the right to mint coins on behalf of its federal states. Saxon coin history ended with the issue of the new Mark coins in gold and silver, although in the Saxon kingdom until 1886 in the Dresden mint and then in Muldenhütten near Freiberg a mint was still in operation until 1953. [65]
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.
21 Bartgroschen (27.464 g of fine silver) = 1 Rhenish guilder (2.527 g fine gold) [6] Ninety Bartgroschen were struck from the eight-lot (= 0.500 f.) Erfurt mark (to 235.4011 g until 1500). [7] The value ratio of 1:21 between gold guilders and groschen was also maintained when the large silver coins, the silver guilders , were introduced.
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 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]
The Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure (London, 2005) Kent, J. P. C., 'From Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England', in Anglo-Saxon Coins: Studies Presented to F. M. Stenton on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 17 May 1960, ed. R. H. M. Dolley (London, 1961), pp. 1–22
The Saxon coins referred to as Dreiers [1] were initially minted according to the coinage regulations of Duke George the Bearded from 1534 and were thus initially part of Saxon coinage history. Four Dreiers were equivalent to 3 Zinsgroschen. [2] The coins were initially made of silver or the silver/copper alloy, billon. [1]
The Beeston Tor Hoard is an Anglo-Saxon jewellery and coin hoard discovered in 1924 at Beeston Tor in Staffordshire. The hoard consists of forty-nine coins, two silver brooches with Trewhiddle style decoration, three finger rings, and miscellaneous fragments. The coins date the burial of the hoard to approximately 875 AD.