Three artefacts found by metal detection in recent years appear to have design elements in common with the early pennies of Beonna of East Anglia (749 – c.760). These may have had commercial purposes, possibly as weights. This article by Tony Abramson explores the possibilities.
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A vital clue in establishing Northumbrian chronology for early pennies – Tony Abramson
In late 2020, a find of an early Northumbria penny from Hayton, East Yorkshire, cast new light on the chronology of the northern royal silver coinage. The coin has a die link with an extremely rare type associated with the patrician king Aethelwald Moll, yet bears the named-moneyer reverse attributed to his son’s second reign three decades later. In this article, Tony Abramson suggests how this find may fit into the sequence.
Tumbledown Dick or Richard IV? – The Story Behind the Coin – Barry Lord
For those interested in the coinage of the Commonwealth this reprint from Caesaromagvs, the journal of the Essex Numismatic Society, should prove interesting; it provides an overview of Richard Cromwell.
Iron Age Coinage in Essex – Mike Cuddeford
The following paper was first published in Caesaromagus No. 120, the journal of the Essex Numismatic Society. This was the occasion of the BANS 2016 Congress hosted by the Essex N.S. in their 50th anniversary year, and the issue incorporated the Congress brochure. Because the coinage described applies to the much larger North Thames region beyond Essex, it was felt it might be of interest to reproduce it here. It has been slightly amended to take into account new research and recent discoveries.
A Search into Rarity (2) – The Testoons of Henry VII – Gary Oddie, David Holt and Colin Pitchfork
In 1962 W. J. W. Potter and E. J. Winstanley provided the most recent study of the profile coinage of Henry VII, including the issue of testoons in 1504. Whilst adding provenances of known specimens, CP expanded upon this list and identified a new reverse die in 1968. This short note revisits the die study, removing one obverse die from the corpus and providing illustrations of each of the known obverse and reverse dies and an example of every known die combination.
The Coinage of Henry VII – Mike Cuddeford
This article was first published in Caesaromagvs, the Journal of the Essex Numismatic Society, in the Summer of 2018. In the interests of exposing to a wider readership it is being reproduced here by kind permission of the author.
Ring Money – Fact or Fiction?
Reprinted from “Caesaromagvs”, Winter 2018 edition, by kind permission of Mike Cuddeford.
The Spatial Distribution of Coins within the Plough Zone Horizon – Mike Cuddeford
This article was recently published in “Cæsaromagus”, the Journal of the Essex Numismatic Society, and is reproduced here by kind permission of the author. It should prove of interest to archaeologists and detectorists as well as numismatists.
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