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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3996431, member: 96898&quot;]Nice new acquisition and good luck with learning Old English! Medieval philology is a wonderful field.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much of my medieval German collection, including the coins below, is somewhat connected to my rather large fascination for Old and Middle High German literature and language.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1052119[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Under the early Salian emperors, anonymous regional moneyer, &quot;Saxon penny&quot;, ca. 1025–1060 AD, struck in the Saale region close to Naumburg. Obv: legend of strokes and I-X-?-V (CRVX–type), cross with pellets and ringlets in quadrants. Rev: egend of strokes and C-V-X-?(CRVX–type), cross of wedges. 16mm, 1.17g. Ref: Dannenberg 1338 var (1337 on plate due to printing error).</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1052117[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Archbishopric of Magdeburg, bracteate penny, ca. ca. 1270–1280. Obv:&nbsp; St. Maurice, wearing armour, standing facing, holding lance and lance flag; ringlets r. and l.. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 20mm, 0.73g. Ref: Berger 1603–1605; Slg. Bonhoff 719.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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