Alfred the Great (871-899) Lunettes Penny

[SAXON KENT]

From the collection:

A rare and interesting Alfred the Great (871-899) Lunettes Penny.

Obv: "+AELBRED:REX" 

Rev: "MON EDELULF ETA" 

Canterbury mint, moneyer Ethelwulf. GP.1,VAR. 2B, Lunettes A REV.

Found in Danelaw '5 Boroughs'. Roxholme near Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire in 2016 (Recorded with Fitzwilliam Museum). Possibly a coin paid as 'tribute' to the Viking Great Army. Small amount of marginal flan damage but the portrait and title are intact and the coin is very stable with no further cracking.

A coin which I am currently looking to move on so if you are interested, don't be shy!

Cameron

Edited February 16, 2017 by SAXON KENT

[SAXON KENT]

The following paper might be of interest to those wishing to study this coinage further, a very useful resource. 

http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/2008_BNJ_78_4.pdf

 

Edited February 17, 2017 by SAXON KENT

[Coinery]

Goodness, I so wish I had something to contribute here, but I don't know a single thing about this period, but so love reading posts about coins of this age.

There's an inverted triangle with its top edge covering the 20th C period of numismatics, and the bottom point being somewhere about where you are!

You've probably got less than 1% of this forum who can engage with your field, but I guess you knew that?

Still love reading about these coins, as I do all coins! ?

 

[SAXON KENT]

Anglo-Saxon coinage is indeed a fascinating period of study, and in my opinion a under-appreciated area of numismatics when compared to say Bronze Pennies. However even though few people on the forum do collect to this period I still enjoy sharing what would normally just be kept in my cabinet for 'my eyes only' as it were.