Featured Completed a moneyer set of Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian stycas

Congrats! That's an awesome collection!

 

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Thanks again for more of your kind words.

I am flattered and humbled that my collecting and meager contributions to this forum have affected your collecting. I saw your 12 coin post and must say, you have some terrific pieces as well. I particularly like the Baktrian coin with the elephant hat. Perhaps I'll try to pick up one like that in the future.

Fortunately there are lots of stycas to choose from, and most will not break the bank!

 

Great to see! You might be interested in knowing that styca is extremely close to the modern Norwegian word "stikke" pronounced stick-uh, meaning a "piece" of something. Don't know the etymology of styca, but it COULD go back to the Viking times.

Steve

 

Very well done 'Nap'. You may remember that I contacted you after your earlier posting of about 12 coins that you'd recently added to your collection. I'm trying to do the same as you but I'm way behind. Several of the coins you've obtained of the rarer moneyers, I've never seen up for sale or for auction, so from whom or where were they bought ----- come on give me a chance, you've succeeded and I'm light years behind you, I need some help!! Congratulations and you have a most interesting collection of good quality Northumbrian coins.

 

The word "Styca" has an Anglo Saxon origin as well. In particular to comes from Old Northrumbian. According to the OED it refers to a piece of money. It seems like too much of a coincidence that "stikke" and also the german "Stuck" both mean piece of something. Without doing deeper research I would say these words are possible cognates.

 

Thanks John!

As I've mentioned before, I am in the United States, and I will say I have no secret connections, with dealers, detectorists, or others. Every coin I have is either from public auction, dealer website, or eBay. I wish I had a supplier, I wouldn't have had to pay full retail!

Of the rarest moneyers I have, Hnifula was from a South Yorkshire dealer, and Aethelheah (Edilech) was out of the recent Lord Stewartby auction..

Since I'm no longer searching for the rare one, have at it! And good luck!

 

Thanks for your reply, Although many of the moneyers you've got I don't have, I've actually got two Hnifula's, a name that apparently means 'Forehead' in Old English!!

 

US collector here, but I can tell a lot of time and effort went into that set.

 

Very interesting writeup , especially since I'm now enthralled in the Vikings saga on the History channel and their attack on Northumbria and Wessex !

 

i've been watching that as well, it's hyped me to get a period coin brittan!

 

After seeing all those beautifull Anglo-Saxon coins, I definately want some too! Thanks for showing them, very impressive.

 

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Alfred

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Awesome collection by the way!

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Very nice, Hnifula is one of the tough ones! I can't imagine there are much more than a dozen of them out there.

I like your profile styca of Leofthegn's hound as well!

 

Dear Nap,

I may have conversed with you before about Northumbrian coins. I am a serious scholar of the sceats, and am publishing articles on Eadberht right now. Have I asked for photos of your Eadberht sceats? Also I have over 200 stycas and can probably supply you with upgrades for some of yours. Are you interested? Ron Bude

 

I am nearly done with a full ruler set of the pre-Viking coinage of Northumbria. There are 12 monarchs and 5 church leaders who struck coins in their names. I am missing one of the monarchs, King Eardwulf, of whom there are only about 8 coins known, will keep looking. The rest of the monarchs are listed here:


Aldfrith, king of Northumbria 685-705
O: +ALdFRIduS
R: Fantastic animal left


Eadberht, king of Northumbria 737-758
O: EOTBERHTVS:, mustached face in center
R: Fantastic animal facing right, triqueta below, cross under tail


Aethelwald Moll, king of Northumbria 759-765 (with Ecgberht, Archbishop of York)
O: +EDILhpLd
R: ECGBERhT A[R]


Alchred, king of Northumbria 765-774
O: +AΓCHRED
R: Fantastic animal facing right, cross below


Aelfwald I, king of Northumbria 779-788
O: +AΓEFDLAV (to be read 'AΓEF VALD', partly retrograde)
R: Fantastic animal facing left


Aethelred I, king of Northumbria, second reign 789-796
O: +ED+Γ.RED
R: +CVD CLS


Aelfwald II, king of Northumbria 806-808
O: +FΓEVAΓDVS
R: CVDhEART


Eanred, king of Northumbria 810-841
O: +EANRED REX
R: +DAEGBERCT


Aethelred II, king of Northumbria (first reign) 841-844
O: +EDELRED REX
R: +LEOFDEJN


Redwulf, king of Northumbria 844
O:+REDVVLF REX
R: +HVAETNDD


Aethelred II, king of Northumbria (second reign) 844-849
O: +EDLIRED RE
R: +VVI.FSIC


Osberht, king of Northumbria 849-867
O: OSBERCHT RE
R: VINIBERHT


Ecgberht, archbishop of York (with Eadberht, king of Northumbria, 737-758)
O: EOTEREhTVſ.
R: ECGBERhT AR


Eanbald I, archbishop of York 780-796 (with Aethelred I, king of Northumbria 774-780 and 789-796)
O: +AEDILRED
R: EANBALD


Eanbald II, archbishop of York 796-830
O: +EANBALD
R: +EDILVEARD


Wigmund, archbishop of York 837-854
O: +VIGMVD IPER
R: +HVNLAF


Wulfhere, archbishop of York 854-900
O: +VLFHERE ABED (retrograde)
R: +VVLFRED (retrograde)

 

Thanks Nap for all of this information. I bought my first styca a couple of months ago - Northumbria King Eanred with Aldates as the moneyer. I ended up identifying the moneyer for the seller before I bought it.

 

Welcome @Puckles

 

Thanks Bing.

 

Welcome! Lovely coin!