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The history of the English penny can be traced back to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the 7th century: to the small, thick silver coins known to contemporaries as pæningas or denarii, though now often referred to as sceattas by numismatists.
In about 675 the gold shilling was superseded by the silver penning, or penny, amongst the Anglo-Saxons, and this would remain the principal English monetary denomination until the mid-14th century, during the Late Medieval period. Early silver pennies were typically decorated with geometric or pictorial designs, occasionally having the name of ...
The English penny (plural "pence"), originally a coin of 1.3 to 1.5 grams (0.042 to 0.048 troy ounces; 0.046 to 0.053 ounces) pure silver, was introduced c. 785 by King Offa of Mercia. These coins were similar in size and weight to the continental deniers of the period and to the Anglo-Saxon sceats which had preceded it.
Modifying coins into jewellery happened across the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, but in the second half of the 11th Century it was particularly fashionable to mount silver pennies [Colchester ...
A sceat or sceatta (/ ʃ æ t / SHAT; Old English: sceatt, pl. sceattas) was a small, thick silver coin minted in England, Frisia, and Jutland during the Anglo-Saxon period that normally weighed 0.8–1.3 grams. It is now (as of 2024) more commonly known in England as an 'early penny'. [1]
William I penny, minted at Lewes Cut penny of William I, minted at Norwich. Following the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror continued the Anglo-Saxon coinage system. As a penny was a fairly large unit of currency at the time, when small change was needed a penny would be cut in half or into quarters at the mint of issue.
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.
1604 penny of James I with portrait. Silver penny of James I, with rose and thistle. When Elizabeth died unmarried and childless in 1603, the throne passed to James VI of Scotland, a great-grandson of Henry VII, who ruled in England as James I. James's silver coinage changed little from that of Elizabeth in production and style.