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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7964054, member: 110504&quot;]Aw, Shucks, [USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER], Thanks for that.&nbsp; </p><p>Regarding the reverse legend, nope, no worries; all it would ever have is &quot;[Somebody, ending in] --ER ON LVNDE.&quot;&nbsp; The early Middle English is reducible to: &quot;[the guy, moneyer] in [yep, for &#039;on&#039;] London.&quot;&nbsp; --Also rendered &quot;Lunden,&quot; although, in the coins, the shorter version is much more common.&nbsp; </p><p>...A cool thing about English coins of this broad period, from late Anglo-Saxon to Norman to early Angevin, is that the legends are bilingual.&nbsp; The obverse, with the king, is Medieval Latin; the reverse, with the mint and moneyer, is Old or early Middle English.&nbsp; It was one point in the Normans&#039; favour (<i>sic</i>, for this minute) that they retained that much of the Anglo-Saxon minting infrastructure --which, in its own European context, was state-of-the-art-- along with the formula for the legends.&nbsp; (They did the same with a lot of the administrative infrastructure, but that&#039;s probably another post.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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