Bare headed bust left/Voided long cross

Godric / Colchester

S1151; 19mm, 1.38g

A rough find area provenance will be supplied with this coin.

Æthelred II ‘The Unready’ – 978-1013/1014-1016: The eldest son of Eadgar, Æthelred became king at the mere age of 12 following the brutal murder of his half-brother Edward. Young and easy to manipulate, he came to depend on his councillors for their prudent advice – an aspect in which they badly let him down. Though his reign is noted for its economic reforms and a high standard for the English coinage, it was marred by Scandinavian raids, periods of acute social instability and famine. Initially adopting a policy of paying the invaders to go away, Æthelred abruptly U-turned in 1002 and massacred many ethnic Danes resident in England. This policy backfired spectacularly, actually causing more Scandinavians to take up arms against him. Displaced from the throne in 1013 by Swein Forkbeard, he briefly returned to rule for a second time in 1014 after the latter’s untimely death – only to die himself shortly afterwards.

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Bronze Zoomorphic Disc Brooch

Gold-guided, chip-carved

Depicting entwined beasts

9th-10th Century AD

Recorded with PAS: SF-ADBE44

26mm; 6.61g

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Bronze Anthropomorphic Strap End

Gold-guided, chip-carved

Depicting face of Wodan

6th-7th Century AD

Found Norfolk, UK

35x10x4mm; 6.32g

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Bronze Anthropomorphic Mount

Gold-guided, chip-carved

Depicting face of Wodan & Eagle

6th-7th Century AD

Found Norfolk, UK

12x16x4mm; 2.14g

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6th-7th Century AD

Found Lincolnshire, UK

A large and impressive piece. good patina

Neat repair to main body of brooch at bottom end of catch plate.

140x45mm; 85.00g

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Large Zoomorphic Mount

Gold-guided, chip-carved

Depicting 4 horses

6th-7th Century AD

Found Derbyshire, UK

43mm; 22.96g

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Cross/cross

S859, 12mm, 0.93g

Excessively Rare, we can only find record of two coins of Aelfwald II being offered for sale in the past 20 years.

This coin is recorded with the Early Medieval Coinage database held at the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge. (2025.0170)

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Ælfwald (c. 779-788) – one of King Eadberht’s grandsons by descent, little is known of Ælfwald’s reign except how it ended – with the murder of both himself and his two sons. Buried at the Abbey of Hexham, he was the subject of a local saint-cult. His coins are some of the last to depict the Northumbrian ‘fantastic beast’ before it disappeared from the numismatic record as a motif.

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9th-10th Century AD

Found York, Yorkshire

2.42g, 25mm

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9th-10th Century AD

16.87g, 57mm

Eastern Vikings.

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Depicting Raven or Eagle

6th-7th Century AD

12.45g, 30mm

Wonderful style, complex design/decoration.

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