The Two-Line Type of Aethelstan, a provisional summary – Hugh Pagan

The initial coinage struck in the reign of King Aethelstan (924-939) was of Two-Line type, in which the reverse design carries the name of a moneyer set out in two lines without any accompanying indication of the location where the coin was struck. Arguments based on the appearance of the same moneyers’ names on mint-signed coins struck later in Aethelstan’s reign, coupled with stylistic criteria, enable the moneyers concerned to be associated either with specific cities or boroughs such as London, Winchester, Canterbury, Chester, Shrewsbury, and Oxford, or with particular regional areas, and the present note sets out the current state of knowledge as to where individual moneyers involved in striking the main series of coins of this type might have been operating.