I've posted a few examples here and there but not a more general overview. Sceattas were the small coins produced out of silver and occasionally...
Nice coins! It has always been a dream of mine to own a coin of Constantine XI from the hoard documented by Simon Bendall. Alas, so far I have...
If you are considering figures of great accommplishment, then Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Aethelstan the Glorious, William I, Henry II,...
I love Archbishop Sharp provenances. Probably the oldest provenance you can find. I have a few stycas from his collection, which were found in...
Weight is 18.67g. Diameter of the visible portion of the coin is about 14 mm, the weight is a little larger. About 5mm thick. No obvious carved...
I thought I'd revive this old thread to show a coin weight that I picked up: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The design resembles the rare...
Yes, the obverse is double struck, which makes the legend a little trickier to read. This is exceedinly common on these coins.
I think the moneyer is Alfred on Canterbury. My reading of the reverse is: +EL.RED ON CÆNTCÆ: I checked the EMC (Early medieval corpus- over...
Coinage in Northumbria took a somewhat different course in the early 700s than in the rest of England. They were the first kingdom to have a regal...
Yes, the proper pronunciation would be 'Leofthegn', not 'Leofdegn' These coins are confusing since they go back and forth beteen 'D' and 'Eth'...
One of my main areas of interest are Northumbrian stycas. These are base metal copper/brass coins of 9th century northern England that are some of...
Valentinian couldn't quite understand why he was always asked to be the goalie when his friends played soccer.
$700 is a lot to spend on a coin you aren't familiar with. If you find coins like this interesting, spend the time learning about them before...
Congrats on your acquisitions and hope you had a nice time in NYC. I also picked up a RR denarius, my first one actually, but haven't imaged it yet.
I'll be there Friday and Saturday
A reasonably decent coin, well at least the finest of the three known. It was on my radar but realistically I did not expect it to sell anywhere...
Thanks John. There must be quite a few up and coming collectors in this field, as noted by the ever surging prices of choice material. If I wish...
Ouch, sorry. Perhaps the underbidder meant to bid 70 and accidently hit 700 ;)
Apparently Ecgberht the Archbishop and Bede the monk were buddies. However, the former lived in York and the latter in Jarrow (near modern day...
I recall seeing a Viking coin on that show. The guy said it was in his family's for years and his dad bought it in England. The coin had a...
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