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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8100966, member: 84905&quot;]Great coin. The ethnic attribution of Sceatta is often difficult. It is likely that these coins were typically not issued by kings or princes, but by trading towns. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ribe (now Denmark) is/was part of the North Frisian settlements. So an attribution to Frisians is in my view in any case preferable to an attribution to Danes or Denmark.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP coin is often called Woden-Monster Type. Similar stylized bearded faces appear frequently on Anglo-Saxon jewellery, such as button brooches and cruciform brooches. The fact that the design is combined with crosses should not really be taken as a sign that the issuers were Christian. There is plenty of evidence that Christian symbolism and pagan symbolism existed side by side during this period in that region.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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