Penny - Æthelstan Tower type

Features

Issuer England (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
King Æthelstan (924-939)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 924-939
Value 1 Penny (1⁄240)
Currency Kings of All England (924-1158)
Composition Silver
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
314136
References Sp# 1101,
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# 684
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

Small cross pattée within inner circle, royal title around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: + AEDEISTAN RX

Translation: King Aethelstan

Reverse

Moneyer's and mint name in field around building set on ground line.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
EB oR
AC AC
REGNALD
MON

Translation: City of York, Regnald, moneyer

Comments

Anglo-Saxon Middle Period (c.780-973), Kings of All England (924-1158), Aethelstan (924-939), Local Issues.
Circumscription Cross/Tower type, North Eastern mint (York); Regnald, moneyer.

Aethelstan, the eldest son of Edward The Elder, completed the re-conquest of territories controlled by the Danes with the capture of York in 927. He decreed that money should be coined only in a borough, that every borough should have one moneyer and that some of the more important boroughs should have more than one moneyer.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (924-939)  York mint

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