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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nap, post: 2570219, member: 73099&quot;]Chipped coins are very common in British Anglo-Saxon coinage.&nbsp; For some rarer issues only broken examples are known.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of my chipped/broken coins, a sceat of Aethelwald Moll:</p><p><img src="http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o582/napoleoniii/kon/aethelwald-ecgberht-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s chipped but it&#039;s otherwise a reasonably detailed example.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are only three known and all are impaired to some extent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has a long provenance and the ancient damage to this coin makes it very easy to identify in old numismatic literature; I found a drawing of it in a text from around 1840.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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