- Title:
- Silver penny of Edward the Elder, Winchester mint [c.910-915] North type 649
- Object name(s):
- archaeology * coins and medals * Nottingham and Notts.; Coin
- Brief description:
- Silver penny of Edward the Elder [899-925]. Obv.: +EADVVEARD REX, with a small central cross. Rev.: AEDEREDMO., Mint: Winchester. Type: North 649 and Blunt et al HP1. Flan 20mm, circle 12mm. Excavation context 022, site PSNOO.
- Collection:
- Nottingham Museums
- Acquisition date:
- 15.05.2003
- Acquisition method:
- gift
- Acquisition reference number:
- EFN0440; EFN0835
- Acquisition source:
- Archaeological Project Services
- Associated concept:
- Numismatica coin
- Condition:
- Fair [clipped, incomplete, in 2 pieces wit a hole in one]
- Dimension:
- 20mm dia.
- Field collection place:
- 14 Plumtre Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire [SK 5780 3972]
- Material:
- Silver
- Object history note:
- From the report by Steve Malone: The blundering of the reverse suggests that this coin is not in fact a regular product of the Winchester mint. It has been struck with retrograde lettering [although this is not evident in the symetrical M and O] to form a boustrophedon: the upper line reading right to left , the lower line left to right. Imperfect dies of one sort or another are occasionally seen among the regular coinage and may simply be the work of inexpert die-sinkers, but such wholesale reverals are generalluy only seen in the danish copies of English coinage and this may be the case here. These imitations vary greatlery in style. Some are 'uncouth', but others are little inferior to the official coinage except in literacy…. It is suggested that many of the dies were lettered by directly copying an actual coin thus producing retrograde legends on the coins themselves. Some dies are found with the first line lettered in one direction and then the second in the reverse direction, after turning the die round, to produce a boustrophedon and this may have been the method of production of the die for this coin. Nottingham remained under Danish control until retaken by Edward the Elder in 918 and this coin may represent some local production of coinage in the years before that or perhaps a further semi-regular issue produced in the Danelaw after that date. An official mint was ultimately established in the town in the reign of Athelstan [924-939].
- Object name:
- archaeology * coins and medals * Nottingham and Notts.; Coin
- Object number:
- NCMG 2003-25/5
- Object production date:
- 910=915
- Date - association:
- Manufacture
- Object production person:
- Aethered
- Person's association:
- Moneyer
- Person's occupation:
- Manufacture
- Object production place:
- Winchester
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