Excavation by Oxford Cotswold Archaeology near Leiston (Suffolk) in April 2023 resulted in the discovery of a small package manufactured from lead sheet. This had been buried at the junction of two field boundary ditches. Unwrapping of this material revealed that it enclosed a coin hoard of 321 coins buried in the early 1040’s, comprising 319 pennies and 2 cut halfpennies. The coins correspond to the reigns of Harold I, Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor. This note provides an initial summary record of the find.
Anglo-Saxon
The 1861 Lower Dunsforth Hoard – Hugh Pagan
This note discusses the evidence for the Lower Dunsforth hoard, 1861, and suggests that we should be cautious about supposing that it contained a coin or coins of Ceolwulf II of Mercia (874-c.879).
AN APPARENT BUT IMPROBABLE NEW MONEYER FOR HAROLD II – HUGH PAGAN AND PHILIP SHAW
The present note discusses a puzzling coin of Harold II ostensibly struck by a Lincoln moneyer ‘Riesennold’.
An Analysis of Strike Error Coins – Lyle Curtis Molina
The purpose of this research note is to provide some guidance and structure for beginning numismatists of British hammered coinage who find an interest with some form of striking error within the Anglo-Saxon and Noman series. The scope of this research note is to: 1) provide examples of strike errors to illustrate aspects to keep an eye out for when examining a coin; 2) provide a framework to help analyse strike errors; and 3) demonstrate practical application of this framework.
The Langford, Bedfordshire, Hoard 2016, and the Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, Hoard 1892 – Hugh Pagan
This records two very similar hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins containing coins of Alfred of Wessex and of Archbishop Plegmund of Canterbury, one found at Langford, Bedfordshire, in 2016, and the other at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in 1892, and discusses the evidence for their dates of deposit. The content of the Langford hoard has not as yet been formally published, and the summary listing of it offered here will be helpful for the wider numismatic community.
Richard Southgate’s Anglo-Saxon Coins – Hugh Pagan
The present note, devoted to the collection of Anglo-Saxon coins made by the Rev. Richard Southgate (1729-1795), is a sequel to the author’s previous note on this blog which discussed Southgate’s numismatic career.
Two (or Three?) Identically Pierced Coins of Edward the Confessor’s Sovereign/Eagles type- Hugh Pagan
This note argues that a pierced coin in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, of Edward the Confessor’s Sovereign/Eagles type, Oxford, moneyer Beorhtweald, SCBI 2, 1105, with a secure provenance going back to 1783, is, remarkably, a cast taken in the eighteenth century from a coin of the same type, mint and moneyer in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, SCBI 9, 918, of which the recorded provenance only goes back to 1934.
A Fresh Look at Phase II Hiberno-Scandinavian Pennies – Robert Page
In this brief study I have examined images of a number of obverse types of Hiberno-Scandinavian Phase II coins in order to determine the relative abundance of each; an article targeted at collectors rather than academic numismatists!
AEDRIC or AEL(F)RIC : A Canterbury Moneyer For Edward The Confessor’s Facing Bust/Small Cross Type – Hugh Pagan
This note argues that Canterbury coins of Edward the Confessor’s Facing Bust/Small Cross type previously attributed to a moneyer Aedric were in reality struck by a moneyer Aelfric, recorded at Canterbury for the preceding type, Hammer Cross.
Mints and Moneyers of Edward The Confessor’s Sovereign/Eagles Type – Hugh Pagan
Image credit: Noonans The primary purpose of this note is to provide an up-to-date list of the minting places and moneyers recorded for Edward the Confessor’s Sovereign/Eagles type, chronologically the seventh substantive type struck during Edward’s reign, most probably in the later 1050s.
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