Series F

Bust with pelleted helmet right / Cross on steps

S781; 11mm, 1.22g

This coin comes with a previous handwritten collector’s label.

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Series B1

Diademed bust / Bird on cross

S777; 12mm, 1.17g

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Secondary Phase AD 710-760 Silver Sceatta

Series N

2 figures / Crested monster

Type 41

S806; 12mm, 0.79g

This coin comes with rough find area provenance.

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Series E

Degenerate head / VICO standard

S790A; 12mm, 0.90g

This coin comes with a previous handwritten collector’s label.

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Central boss / lion with triple tail above

S846, 10mm, 0.94g

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance.

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Aldfrith (685-705) – Aldfrith was the first King of Northumbria to issue coins and also one of the earliest English rulers known to display his name on a coin itself. A well-educated churchman who became king on the death of his older brother Ecgfrith, under his rule Northumbria entered its so-called ‘golden age’. He was a direct contemporary of both Bede and Alcuin, both of whom write favourably about him.

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York type 37

2 diademed heads facing each other/4 birds clockwise around cross

S802A, 13mm, 1.01g

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance.

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Pellet in circle

Moneyer Ceolbald

S856, 15mm, 0.97g

A decent example, sharp strike and little wear.

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance.

Æthelred I (774-779, 790-796) –             a king with two reigns, Æthelred was deposed in 779 but returned to rule in 790. In 792, he achieved a substantial act of diplomacy by allying with Mercia through marriage to King Offa’s daughter Ælfflæd. However, the next year Lindisfarne was raided for the first time by marauding Vikings – Æthelred’s popularity subsequently tumbled, as many saw this event as God punishing his brutal habits of murdering potential rivals. Chroniclers record that he was killed by a group of his own nobles at Corbridge in 796.

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Eanred AD 810-841 Copper Styca 1st reign

Small cross. Fordred.

S862; 13mm, 1.30g

Kingdom of Northumbria

The end of the 7th Century sees the establishment of an advanced monetary system in Northumbria with Kings and Archbishops being named on silver sceats, also the introduction of a bronze coin called the Styca. The silver coins of this series vary in rarity and price, some kings who ruled for very short periods are extremely rare, other, more successful rulers produced far more coins.

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Series E

Degenerate head / Votive standard TOTII

S790, 11mm, 0.79g

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance

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Series E

Degenerate head / Standard VICO around central annulet

S790A, 11mm, 0.96g

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance

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