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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 7037926, member: 87200&quot;]I found <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/medieval-english-coins-the-coins-of-aethelred-the-unready/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/medieval-english-coins-the-coins-of-aethelred-the-unready/" rel="nofollow">this article</a> which discusses the helmeted types. To quote from the article:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Æthelred’s Helmet Type pennies began to appear around 1003 and were minted until about 1009. The obverse depicts the king’s helmeted and armored bust facing left with the inscription + ÆÐELRÆD REX Λ(NG)L•. The reverse presents a voided long cross with a pellet at the center and a triple crescent or an uppercase Omega at the end of each cross-bar; the cross is superimposed over a square with incurved sides and trefoil at each point. The reverse inscription on the coin shown here reads + BУRHSIGE M’Θ BARD (Birhsige the Moneyer at the Barnstaple mint).</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The armor that Æthelred wears on this coin is more typical of what a fourth-century Roman emperor would have worn than what a 10th-century Saxon king would have. The die engraver may very well have borrowed that part of the design from one of the thousands of Roman coins that have been found in England.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>It appears that the King&#039;s long reign was greatly impacted by the depredations of the Vikings. In fact, the practice of paying the<i> Danegeld </i>to the Vikings was started under Aethelred.</p><p><br /></p><p>His successor was the Dane Sven Forkbeard, though one of his sons, Edward the Confessor, would take power in 1042.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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