The First Hand Coinage of

Æthelred II

 

 
979-985
BMC iia
Hildebrand B1
Seaby # 1144
North # 766

 

Image Description Notes
  • Penny
  • ÆLFRIC M-O HVNTAN
  • 1.58gm/21.11mm
  • EX: Alfa Numismatics Auction 7(15 August 2021), lot 29
Huntington: See SCBI 7-Copenhagen: 437 for a simalar example

 

 

  • Penny
  • ǷALTFERÐ M-O GIP
  • 1.65gm/20.00mm
  • EX: CNG 63(21 May 2003), lot 1939, CNG 29(30 March 1994, lot 1595; Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin, January 1965, H2602

 

 

Ipswich; SCBI 09-Ashmolean:438(reverse die match); See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 217, coin 99 for a probable die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • LEOFSTAN MO LVNDO
  • 1.38gm/20.00mm

 

 

London
  • Penny
  • SIBǷINE M-O LVNDONI
  • gm/20.14mm
  • S 1144
  • N 0766
  • Found near Kärla, Saaremaa, Estonia c. May 2024
London: SCBI 2-Hunterian: 797(obverse die match). Moneyer known mostly from this mint and reign.

 

 

  • Penny
  • LIVINC MONETA NORÐǷIC
  • 1.56gm/21.25mm
  • EX: Late John Hulett(Part XV) sold at DNW 169(12 February 2020), lot 1(bt A. H. Baldwin)

 

 

Norwich; SCBI 26-East Anglian:1142. Rare variety with the A and W transposed by hand.

 

 

  • Penny
  • LIVINC M[ONETA] NORDǷIC
  • 1.36gm/18.00mm

 

 

Norwich; SCBI 26-East Anglian:1142. Rare variety with the A and W transposed by hand.

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÆÐELǷERD M•O HAMǷIC•
  • 1.27gm/19.87mm
  • Found near Alyesford, Kent, spring 2013

 

 

Southampton; SCBI 7-Copenhagen: 411

 

 

  • Penny
  • [ISEGL M-O H]AMVIC
  • 0.64gm/10.40mm

 

 

Southampton; SCBI 2-Glasgow: 802; SCBI 7-Copenhagen: 414; SCBI 50-St Petersburg I: 285; rare moneyer known only at this mint and reign

 

 

  • Penny
  • BEORHNOÐ M-O [ǷINT]O
  • 1.20gm/19.30mm
  • Found 20 February 2005, Sharlfleet, Isle of Wight

 

 

Winchester, SCBI 25-Helsinki:10(possible reverse die match), SCBI 36-Berlin:217(possible reverse die match); EMC 2018.0271(this coin); See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 238, coin 356 for a probable die match.

 

 

  • Penny
  • FRYÐEMND M-O ǷIN
  • 1.61gm/19.90mm

 

 

Winchester; Very rare moneyer, only three examples listed in the Sylloge or EMC; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 238, coin 358 for a probable die match.

 

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