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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nap, post: 2426996, member: 73099&quot;]I think it&#039;s a very interesting piece as well</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen a few of these and the coin is usually in poor shape.&nbsp; This is an extremely nice example of the coin, with an iconic design.</p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned, this coin is a sceat, series K thought to originate from Kent.&nbsp; Other weights known have sceattas, stycas, and even Mercian pennies inserted</p><p><br /></p><p>While I am in no point to argue as I am not any sort of researcher, I have a hard time believing that this sceatta coin, which is from the early 8th century, could have been manipulated at such a later time (late 9th century).&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to believe that coins that were well over 100 years old be just sitting around for all that time, and in nice condition.&nbsp; You don&#039;t find sceats in 9th century penny hoards, so the idea of this being a later Viking Danelaw item is, to me, implausible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Rather, I think it has to be a contemporary piece of the 8th century, probably made by the Anglo-Saxons themselves, to whom the image of the wolf would have held some meaning.&nbsp; If it must be Viking, though I see no great reason why it must, then it probably would be very early, late 8th or early 9th century.&nbsp; After that period, the idea of sceattas being in circulation is much harder to accept.&nbsp; Offa&#039;s coinage (in Mercia) got going in the mid 8th century, and except for Northumbria (where stycas circulated until the mid 9th century) the sceatta was phased out in all of southern England in favor of the broad penny.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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