Category Archives : anglo-saxon


Anglo_Saxon_Cnut_Silver_Short_Cross_Type_Penny_Godinc_1016_35_01_rs
London mint, Godinc moneyer. Profile bust, looking left, with sceptre, +CNUT RECX. Short voided cross, united in the centre with an annulet, outer circle surrounded by the legend, +GODINC ON LUNDE. Spink 1159, North 790. Cnut was born around 990, his father was Sweyn Forkbeard, the Danish. Little is known […]

Anglo-Saxon, Cnut, Silver Short Cross Type Penny, Godinc, 1016-35


Anglo_Saxon_Aethelred_II_Silver_Hand_of_Providence_Type_Penny_979_985_01_js
Silver penny’first-hand type. London mint, Wulfric moneyer. Extremely fine, small edge loss. Diademed bust right (without sceptre), +AEDELRED REX ANGLOX. Hand of providence facing down, between alpha and omega, +PVLFRIC M-O LVNDONI. 1.45g, 20.6mm. Aethelred succeeded to the throne of England at the age of twelve, in 978, after the […]

Anglo-Saxon Aethelred II Silver’Hand of Providence’ Type Penny 979-985