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Coinage in Anglo-Saxon England refers to the use of coins, either for monetary value or for other purposes, in Anglo-Saxon England.. Archaeologists have uncovered large quantities of coins dating to the Anglo-Saxon period, either from hoards or stray finds, making them one of the most plentiful kinds of artefact that survive from this period.
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 ...
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.
Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016. By ELINA SCREEN 2013 66. NORWEGIAN COLLECTIONS; Part II. Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins, 1016–1279. By ELINA SCREEN 2015 67 BRITISH MUSEUM; Anglo-Saxon Coins II. Southern English Coinage from Offa to Alfred c. 760–880. By R. NAISMITH 2016. 68 THE LYON COLLECTION OF ANGLO-SAXON COINS; By S. LYON.
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 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.
Thanks to the trade fairs, thalers from the provinces of the Netherlands minted to the Burgundian standard, [4] arrived in Saxony via the trade route to Leipzig. [5] These coins were indeed better than the Electoral Saxon ones, which were minted to the national currency standard of the Treaty of Zinna, but of lower quality than the Speciesreichsthaler coins minted to the Imperial Coin Standard.
The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.