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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 7490002, member: 100731&quot;]Yesterday, after searching nearly two years for a specimen with a favorable quality and price ratio, I was able to add this wonderful coin to my expanding collection of early-Medieval coinage:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1295364[/ATTACH]</p><p>EARLY MEDIEVAL, anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (Series X), minted: Ribe, Danmark (or Frisia); 710-800 AD</p><p>Obv: Facing &#039;Wodan&#039; head with radiate hear, beard and mustache, cross on either side, all within line border</p><p>Rev: Bipedal monster in flight, looking back, gaping jaws biting raised triple-forked tail, crest before with pellet and, ornaments below head.</p><p>Weight: 1.11g; Ø:11.1mm. Catalogue: Abramson 103-10. Provenance: acq.: 04-2021</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an iconic coin, probably known by all early-Medieval coin collectors. Like most sceatta&#039;s, little to nothing is known what the iconography represents: on the obverse, we see a bearded (?) face (?), with rough hair (?), flanked by two cross-pommee, all within a lined and dotted border. On the reverse, we see a fantastic beast, biting its own tail (?), all within a lined and dotted border. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s tempting to speculate. Most auction houses refer to this coin as the &#039;Wodan&#039; sceatta, and indeed, with many of these sceatta&#039;s dug up in Danmark, Wodan may be a candidate. Others suggest a crude imitation of a Byzantine Jezus figure, and interpret the lined and dotted border as a halo. In the end, we just don&#039;t know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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