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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 4734038, member: 100731&quot;]This one was in the post yesterday. It includes an interesting find location:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158480[/ATTACH] </p><p>ANGLO-SAXON, Anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (Series E, sub-variety E), minted: Frisia; 690-715 AD </p><p>Obv: Porcupine figure with 7 spikes ending in dots. Curved spine with on dot near the end. Below Roman numerical XII; pellets below II; before the X a &gt;; below the X a V with a dot above. </p><p>Rev: Standard with central annulet, above a cross-pommee, on the right and left a V with a pellet on the inner side, below a curved v with a pellet on the inner side Weight: 0g; Ø:12mm. Catalogue: Conform die chain 1670-1672 (Metcalf &amp; Op ten Velde (2010) (The Monetary Economy of the Netherlands, c. 690 - c. 760 and the Trade with England: A Study of the &#039;Porcupine&#039; Sceattas of Series E)). Provenance: <b>Found in Rinsumageest </b>(near Dokkum, Friesland).; acq.: 08-2020 </p><p><br /></p><p>So this coin was found in Rinsumageest, a (very) small village in the north of <i>Magna Frisia. </i>In a source from the 8th century, a village <i>Ringesheim</i>, built upon a <i>terp </i>is mentioned. Unfortunately, this <i>terp</i>, as with many hundreds of others, was completely removed and the soil used as fertilizer elsewhere in the Netherlands.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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