Image: Colonel Sempronius Stretton, a painting by Thomas Barber This note has two primary purposes. The first is to draw the attention of the numismatic community to John Sheehan’s reassignment of the Eadgar hoard’s find spot from Co. Kilkenny to Co. Westmeath. The second is to provide an updated listing of the coins of Eadgar and of other tenth-century Anglo-Saxon rulers offered in the 1855 Stretton sale.
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A Day at the Museum – Part (i) The Search for the Lesser Elongated Squirrel
On 25 July 2023, the author and two members of the Bedford Numismatic Society visited Wardown House Museum and Gallery, in Luton. The “behind the scenes” visit had two main motives. Firstly, inspection and photography of the Museum’s collection of Bedfordshire tokens and also to work through the museum’s holdings of Anglo-Saxon and Norman pennies struck at the Bedford Mint.A follow-up visit to the Stockwood Discovery Centre on 15 August was arranged to view the Bedford Mint pennies, on permanent display there, and also to help the museum with the safe relocation of the Shillington hoard of 127 gold aurei found in 1998 and 1999. This will be written up in a separate Blog. Whilst on site the opportunity was taken to make an elongated penny using a machine in the visitor centre to be described here.
An Unpublished Variety and Moneyer for the Romney Mint – Lindsay Hardcastle
The Find Spot for a Hampshire Hoard of Coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold II Untangled – Hugh Pagan
Clarification on three late Anglo-Saxon coin hoards.
A Fourth Specimen of the Putative Coinage of Willibrord – Tony Abramson and Ype de Jong
An additional find of a rare sceat helps to establish the chronology of the evolving reverse dies.
John Nicholas Cross Collection : Coins in the Names of Eighth and Ninth Century Kings of Northumbria and Archbishops of York – Hugh Pagan
How to Kill Two Birds with One Stone – Tony Abramson
What at first was thought to be a previously unrecorded sceat, combining a primary phase Series B-related reverse muled with a secondary phase, bipedal animal reverse, was found near Royston, Hertfordshire in late 2022. Research revealed it to be closely related to an unlisted variety recorded in 1986.
A New Merovingian Tremissis – Tony Abramson
There is no catalogued precedent for a metal-detector find of a gold tremissis in North Yorkshire east of York. The inscriptions and reverse monogram currently defy plausible interpretation.
A new Ipswich reverse die in the Last Small Cross issue of Æthelred II – A.G. Bliss
The moneyer Leofsige seems to have struck at Ipswich for a period of around 30 years, mostly in the reign of Æthelred II. This coin details a newly recognised Last Small Cross penny of Ipswich which adds a new reverse die to those previously known for this moneyer.
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