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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nap, post: 3208434, member: 73099&quot;]The series K is indeed from Kent.&nbsp; Many of the early Anglo-Saxon coins were minted in Kent and probably Canterbury; coinage outside of eastern England (and York) was on a considerably smaller scale until much later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the Rigold letter series is associated with mint location- series H from Hamwic (Southampton), series L from London, series W from Wessex, etc.&nbsp; Other series are named for other features (S for Sphinx [which is really a centaur]), and some letters have no association.&nbsp; As far as I know every letter in the alphabet is used for a series except for I and P.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lettering of the series was devised some 40+ years ago, and like the British museum numbering from 100 years ago it is somewhat deficient especially with many of the new types and findings of the metal detecting era.&nbsp; An alternate scheme has been promoted by Tony Abramson in his book “Sceatta List”.&nbsp; there’s a new edition out this year but the old edition is also pretty good and you could probably pick up a secondhand copy cheap.&nbsp; His classification scheme is good but has not yet been widely accepted though.&nbsp; The first edition contains good information on stycas as well, though I don’t quite agree with his classification on these.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another good resource is Medieval European Coinage (MEC) 8: Britain and Ireland, but this is an expensive book.</p><p>For free, you could start with Rigold’s initial articles in the BNJ, describing his classification.&nbsp; Keep in mind the info is a little outdated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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