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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3085925, member: 84744"]What a fabulous array... if I were to pick 2 to hear more about, they would be secondary series K and H.  I'm also curious why the flans tend to be so consistently round, at least compared to other medieval coins. Here's my primary phase, series BII, probably issued under Wihtred in Kent (c. 690-725). You've seen it before:[ATTACH=full]777904[/ATTACH] And a Merovingian denier from around the same time, contemporary with Pepin II and Charles Martel (issued in St. Denis/Catullacum, burial place of the Merovingian kings):[ATTACH=full]777905[/ATTACH] As in Britain, earlier coinage in the Frankish territories had been in gold only, the first deniers appearing c. 675 under Childeric II.  Presumably the Anglo Saxon sceats are based on the denier (1g of silver)?  Grierson argues that the denier was in fact called the "denarius," and one would expect the sceat's original name to be something related.[/QUOTE]