Penny anonymous

Features

Issuer Viking Kingdom of York (Kingdoms of British Isles and Frisia)
King Siefred (895-900)
Cnut (900-905)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 895-905
Value 1 Penny (1⁄240)
Currency Pound
Composition Silver
Weight 1.34 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
311608
References Sp# 999,
Emma Howard (editor); 2021. Standard Catalogue of British Coins : Coins of England & the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal Issues (56th edition). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
And 2 more volumes.
North# 508
Jeffrey J. North; 1963. English Hammered Coinage / Volume 1. Early Anglo-Saxon : Henry III c. 650-1272. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
And 1 more volumes.

Obverse

Patriarchal cross, legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: EBR · AI · CE · C

Translation: City of York.

Reverse

Central small cross pattée, pellets in second and third quarters, legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: + D · N S · DS · REX ·

Unabridged legend: Dominus Deus Rex

Translation: The lord God almighty is king.

Mint

York, England

Comments

Anglo-Saxon Middle Period (c.780-973), Anglo-Viking Coinages (885-954), Coinages of the Viking Kingdom of York (c.895-920)

Siefred (Sigeferth) is recorded as being a pirate in Northumbria around 893 and seems to have assumed control after Guthfrith’s death in 895.

Some 3,000 silver pennies bearing Cnut's name were in the Cuerdale hoard, found near Preston, Lancashire in 1840. The date suggested for the burial of this hoard is c. 905, soon after the Vikings were expelled from Dublin. Who Cnut was and where he reigned are matters of conjecture.

L.&S. Vb

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