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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7838693, member: 115171&quot;]Happy to see this thread active.&nbsp; This coin does not depict a saint, but it was issued by a saint.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1348040[/ATTACH]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1348039[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Saxon penny, Edmund of East Anglia.&nbsp; Moneyer Eadmund.&nbsp; Reigned 855-869 or 870 AD.&nbsp;&nbsp; The last Saxon King of East Anglia, he was captured by the Great Heathen Army.&nbsp; Refusing to abjure Christ,&nbsp; he was sacrificed to Wotan on November 20th, 869 AD.&nbsp; After he was beheaded, his head was thrown into a forest, but recovered with the aid of an ethereal wolf who cried “Hic, hic, hic’” or “here, here, here.”&nbsp; O blesséd realm of East Anglia, where even the wolves were Latin scholars. </p><p>Saint Edmund’s remains were interred at Bury St. Edmund’s, and became a site of pilgrimage and miracles.&nbsp; The monastery there prospered as a result, until it was dissolved and destroyed under King Henry VIII.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1848, antiquarians discovered a collection of wolf skulls there.&nbsp; One hopes St. Edmund’s lupine benefactor was not among them. </p><p>Purchased from Joe Linzalone of Wolfshead Coins 2007 AD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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