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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4642413, member: 110504"]All I have are a couple of fractional neo-AEthelreds, already on another post here, somewhere, which are attributed, with reasonable confidence, to Sweden, c. 11th century.</p><p>...But you can get Into the Weeds with this stuff! The AEthelred imitations show up from one side of the Viking world to the other, starting from Dublin. And some of the earliest Dublin issues are deceptively close copies, yes, including the legends. I think the suspicion goes back to Michael Dolley that, in some cases, including 10th century coinages in the Danelaw and York, Ango-Saxon engravers were 'recruited' ...by whatever means. In effect, the levels of degeneration and blundering involved inhabit a spectrum as much as a more discrete sequence. Makes you miss the likes of Grierson and Blackburn.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4642413, member: 110504"]All I have are a couple of fractional neo-AEthelreds, already on another post here, somewhere, which are attributed, with reasonable confidence, to Sweden, c. 11th century. ...But you can get Into the Weeds with this stuff! The AEthelred imitations show up from one side of the Viking world to the other, starting from Dublin. And some of the earliest Dublin issues are deceptively close copies, yes, including the legends. I think the suspicion goes back to Michael Dolley that, in some cases, including 10th century coinages in the Danelaw and York, Ango-Saxon engravers were 'recruited' ...by whatever means. In effect, the levels of degeneration and blundering involved inhabit a spectrum as much as a more discrete sequence. Makes you miss the likes of Grierson and Blackburn.[/QUOTE]
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