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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4942495, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks, [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER], for rising, phoenix-like, to the challenge of reviving this.&nbsp; Well above and beyond the call of duty.&nbsp; ...Eventually, I&#039;m going to try to squint out what class your example is.&nbsp; Meanwhile, here&#039;s an easy one to find pics of.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1188126[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1188127[/ATTACH] AEthelred II, 978-1014/6.&nbsp; &#039;Long cross&#039; penny, c. 997-1003.</p><p>Obv. (from 7/8 o&#039;clock) AED [OE &#039;thorn;&#039; th] ELRED REX ANGLO [--rum</p><p>Rev. (from 9 o&#039;clock)&nbsp; +DR / ENG / M=O / LINC&nbsp;&nbsp; (Dreng, moneyer in Lincoln).</p><p>(North 774.)</p><p>...Right, with worse than the particularly enthusiastic pecking.&nbsp; I still have to like this one for the combination of a moneyer with a Scandinavian name, and a mint in the &#039;five boroughs,&#039; effectively the western part of the Danelaw.&nbsp; ...As such, the peck marks evoke the skepticism a native, Danegeld-taking Dane might harbor toward a more assimilated moneyer, whose people could have arrived over the preceding century and a quarter or so.&nbsp; ...Of course, I couldn&#039;t tell you who dented AEthelred&#039;s face![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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