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.
Anglo-Saxon
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.
The Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath, Hoard of Coins of Eadgar – Hugh Pagan
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.
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.
