Penny anonymous MIRΛBILΛ FECIT

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 1.35 g
Diameter 19 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
311609
References Sp# 1000,
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# 512
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

Inverted patriarchal cross, four pellets around upper crossbar, legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: ·+ E·BR·ΛI · CEC

Translation: City of York.

Reverse

Central small cross pattée, pellets in first and fourth quarters, legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: + MIRΛBILΛ FECIT

Translation: He has worked wonders.

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. VIc

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (895-905) 

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