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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AnYangMan, post: 3877248, member: 87271&quot;]Awesome acquisitions! See, I knew you’d specialise in these. They remain extremely fascinating and I am looking forward to seeing your future acquisitions. And even if that stepped cross is broken, it is still an amazing coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one you hadn’t identified is a Class D, type 8. Quite an enigmatic type, since it mules the reverse of a class E ‘porcupine’ sceatta with the reverse of class D (continental runetype). Although they were struck in quite significant numbers and since (to the best of my knowledge) no die link has ever been found to a true Class D or E coin, they do not fit the traditional definition of a mule. These are primarily found in England, but the current hypothesis is that were struck in the Netherlands, either in Frisia or the Domburg area (the latter of which was quite a large port in the Anglo-Frisian trade, where quite a few sceattas of all types have been found). Be careful when sources attribute any type of sceatta to Dorestad by the way; there is often fairly little evidence for this. As soon as the distribution pattern shows a focus on the centre or south of the Netherlands, they are immediately attributed to Dorestad. The same goes for those found in the north of the Netherlands and the northwest of Germany; these are immediately attributed to Wijnaldum. We know that these would indeed have been the larger settlements in this period, and they might very well have been struck there, but there is little direct evidence to support this. There are definitely some series of Sceattas that were struck in Dorestad and Domburg, but from the entire dataset we can however also deduce that it is likely that there are many different ‘local’ mints, so attributing the entire series to just a handful of big emporia is somewhat problematic. Date-wise they belong to the primary phase of continental ‘imitations’ and are quite possibly the earliest specimens of class D.</p><p><br /></p><p>And a small correction (just nit-picking here <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />): your second plumed bird is actually not variety K (lean bird, inverted of triangle of pellets ), but variety J (slightly more ‘plump’ bird, regular triangle of pellets). The difference is only minor and makes no real impact on the ID!</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve shown mine before in your previous Sceatta-related topic, but I’ll take any excuse to show them again:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48826239668_cb7dadd8cc_h.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48826239993_ab5d343b5c_h.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the same Class D, type 8 as your unidentified one (although from a vastly different pair of dies). The last one is another lovely ‘porcupine’![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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