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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4642462, member: 110504"]Great stuff, too! I love it that the moneyer of your York example is a namesake of the late /transitional Viking Age 'King /Lord of the Isles,' Somerled.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerled" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerled" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerled</a></p><p>When I was actively collecting AEthelred II, combinations of York or Danelaw mints and Scandinavian moneyers' names were always a major selling point. Here are two, with Swartgar on York and Dreng on Lincoln. ...It's a little odd that the one from Lincoln would have so many peck marks ...Maybe the first-generation Danes didn't have that high an opinion of some of their naturalized cousins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4642462, member: 110504"]Great stuff, too! I love it that the moneyer of your York example is a namesake of the late /transitional Viking Age 'King /Lord of the Isles,' Somerled. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerled[/URL] When I was actively collecting AEthelred II, combinations of York or Danelaw mints and Scandinavian moneyers' names were always a major selling point. Here are two, with Swartgar on York and Dreng on Lincoln. ...It's a little odd that the one from Lincoln would have so many peck marks ...Maybe the first-generation Danes didn't have that high an opinion of some of their naturalized cousins.[/QUOTE]
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