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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.
A coin can be worth a ton of money -- a pretty penny, one might say -- if it's rare and has enough historical significance. ... CoinTrackers.com values an average shape 1931 D St. Gaudens Double ...
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 ...
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.