Kings of Northumbria Aelfwald II AD 806-808 Base Silver Styca *Excessively Rare*

Kings of Northumbria Aelfwald II AD 806-808 Base Silver Styca.

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.