My first coin-o-pumpkin [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Great addition, congratulations. I suspect there is some similarity of the cross on box to the cross on triangle type of the same King Aethelred,...
Great job @Roerbakmix These little coins are addictive! No. 18 is sometimes considered a BX/BI mule or transitional coin because of the presence...
I purposely did not call the groat a fourpence, as unlike in England the groat did not have a constant value, and in fact was not worth four pence...
Here are the five coins together [ATTACH]
Alexander I did not issue any coins. I am not super optimistic about acquiring a Malcolm, but I'll give it a try. I have only ever seen one...
Despite the fact that it was written more than 30 years ago, without the benefit of the body of data from the modern metal detecting era, much of...
These large silver pieces are very impressive. I have a 30 shillings of James VI before ascension, it’s a big and imposing piece that makes these...
That’s quite interesting, I haven’t seen that variety before. I know the groats of Robert II sometimes have a ‘B’ on the coins which is supposed...
You know, I have no Anglo-Scotch ancestry at all. I just like the history and the coins. The tennis ball tale is a good one. The medieval Scots...
There are at least two James’s of consequence that went unmentioned in the story- Kings James VI/I and James VII/II. Also the old pretender James...
Much of what we think we know about sceats is still incomplete. New finds add to our knowledge. We used to think series G was from Wessex...
I use the Early Medieval Corpus and the Portable Antiquities Scheme for my initial references when researching Anglo-Saxon coins. Then acsearch,...
This coin, a very rare English Northumbrian sceatta of Aethelwald Moll with Archbishop Ecgberht, was first featured in an article from the...
This coin is probably a variant of series R, type 10, also known as "Wigraed type". The legend is blundered on your coin and the metal quality...
Not sure the point you're making. Do you think the series R sceat is not Anglo-Saxon?
The lives, untimely deaths, and groats of the first five King James' of Scotland. From 1406-1542 the king of Scotland was named James, and...
Series R10 Wigraed. More to follow
[MEDIA] Here's an old song played on a Victrola. It's been a number of years since I recorded this, and now I feel like I've become the old...
You’re just gonna need another Henry VII coin then in his own name :) Don’t let anyone tell you how to collect. Collect what you like. As...
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