Middle Anglo Saxon

 

Wulfred

Archbishop of Canterbury c.805-c.832
Wikipedia entry for Wulfred
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  • 810-815
  • Penny
  • SAEBE[RHT M]ONETA
  • GroupII; transitional monogram
  • 1.03gm/18.10mm
  • S 0888
  • N 0240
  • Found near Oxford, Oxfordshire; EMC 1999.0153(this coin)

Canterbury; SCBI 1-Fitzwilliam:438; MEC I. 1148

 

Coenwulf

King of Mercia c.796-c.821
Wikipedia entry for Beornwulf
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  • c.810-c.821
  • Penny
  • OBA + MON + ETA
  • Cross Moline
  • BMC 69
  • 1.25gm/18.10mm
  • S 0917
  • N 0352

Canterbury; SCBI 1-Fitzwilliam: 399, 400, SCBI 2-Glasgow: 340, SCBI 21-Yorkshire: 955

 

 

Beornwulf

King of Mercia c.823-825
Wikipedia entry for Beornwulf
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  • c.823-825
  • Penny
  • [EACG]A MONETO
  • BMC 114; Be 2-4; Type II
  • 0.80gm/14.20mm
  • S 0929
  • N 0397

Possibly less than 50 coins of this reign are known to exist and of those less than ten of this moneyer. Probable die dupicates of EMC 2001.1240 and EMC 1992.0260.

 

 

Burgred

King of Mercia 852-874
Wikipedia entry for Burgred.
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  • 852-874
  • Penny
  • [?]EAELF
  • Lunette a, BMC 140-402
  • 0.68gm/13.10mm
  • S 0938
  • N 0423
Uncertain Moneyer

 

  • 863-868
  • Penny
  • VVINE
  • Lunette c, BMC 140-402
  • 1.25gm/19.80mm
  • S 0940
  • N 0425
  • EX: Mack; Carlyon-Britton, Waterloo Bridge Find 1882
SCBI 20-Mack:628(this coin)

 

 

Æthelstan I

King of East Anglia c.825-845
Wikipedia entry for ÆÐelstan I
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  • 827-845
  • Penny
  • TORHTHLEM(Ipswich?)
  • BMC 8(16)
  • 1.18gm/19.30mm
  • S 0951
  • N 0440
  • EMC 1987.1002, EX: Spink NC, July 1987, lot 4364

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Æthelweard

King of East Anglia c.845-854
Wikipedia entry for ÆÐeleard
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  • c.845-854
  • Penny
  • EAD[MV]N
  • BMC 25
  • 0.88gm/20.30mm
  • S 0953
  • N 0450
  • EMC 2006.380; found near Ely, Cambridgeshire

SCBI 50-St Petersburg I:126

 

 

Æthelwulf

 


King of Wessex c.839-c.856

Wikipedia entry for Æthelwulf

 

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  • c.848-c.851
  • Penny
  • [VVE]LHEARDMO
  • Phase III, BMC i
  • 1.04gm/18.90mm
  • S 1049
  • N 0614
  • found in Suffolk before 2007
Minted at Rochester, scarce moneyer

 

  • c.852-c.858
  • Penny
  • [E]ÐELNOÐ
  • Phase IV, BMC xvii
  • 0.79gm/20.80mm
  • S 1051
  • N 0618
  • Single coin find at what latter turned out to be a Viking grave in East Anglia, July 1982; EX: Patrick Finn

SCBI 1-Fitzwilliam:528

 

Edward The Elder

 


King of Wessex 899-924

Wikipedia entry for Edward the Elder

 

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  • 899-924
  • Penny
  • RÆGENVLF M-O
  • Two Line type,, BMC ii, Early II
  • 1.56gm/22.00mm
  • S 1087
  • N 0649
  • Winchester dies

SCBI 6-Edinburgh: 99, scarce moneyer

 

Eadmund


King of Wessex 939-946

Wikipedia entry for Edward the Eadmund

 

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  • 939-946
  • Penny
  • BERHTRED MO
  • Two-Line (H): HT 1
  • 1.06gm/21.20mm
  • S 1005
  • N 0688
  • Found near Kings Lynn, Norfolk; EMC 2007.0168 &2007.0261

The coin has two EMC numbers.

 

Eadred

 


King of all England 946-955

Wikipedia entry for Eadred

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  • 946-955
  • Penny
  • BERNVC MO
  • Two-line Horizontal; HR 2
  • 1.33gm/22.00mm
  • S 1113
  • N 0708
So far unrecorded reverse inscription. See also BMC(Keary & Grueber) Eadred #17 which is similar and thus this coin could be from the moneyer Bernard or Burnard.

 

  • 946-955
  • Penny
  • CLA[C ]MONETA[ MON]ET
  • Bust Crowned Without Mint
  • 0.90gm/19.90mm
  • S 1115
  • N 0713
  • Found Manningtree, near Essex; EMC 2007.0166
SCBI 34-BM:697

 

Eadgar

 


King of Mercia 957-959

King of all England 959-975

Wikipedia entry for Eadgar.
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  • 959-973
  • Penny
  • INGOLF
  • Two-Line; BMC i; Brooke 1
  • 1.25gm/20.50mm
  • S 1129
  • N 0741
  • North Eastern Moneyer

SCBI 6-Edinburgh:458; SCBI 34-BM:941

 

 

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