Alfred The Great Silver Penny - Danelaw Imitation

Reference:B0366
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Alfred The Great Silver Penny

Danelaw Imitation

Brithard/Burnweald on Canterbury

1.40g 21.3mm

Spink – 966

North – 475/1 Rare

 

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Obverse:

AFIFPEX PEX D‾ORO. Small cross in centre

 

Reverse:

BNRIVAD MO . Moneyer in two lines, pellet in the centre, pellet above and below.

 

Good very fine, small spot of excess silver by D of DORO, rich tone and rare. 

 

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular, Mar 1996 - No. 706 (Listed as official issue)

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular, Jul 1992 - No. 4165 (Listed as official issue)

 

"The Duro form was only introduced at Canterbury towards the end of Alfred's reign, probably c.8895-7, so the imitations must be later. To explain the many different Canterbury coins that the die-cutter had copied, either we must look for a mint in the very south of the Danelaw where these might have been dominant, or assume that a purse of Canterbury pennies. had come to the die-cutter to reproduce in, say, the East Midlands. Because of the chronology, an East Midlands attribution is still the most attractive." Blackburn (2019).

For very similar dies see:

Blackburn, M (2019) 'Viking Coinage and Currency in the British Isles', British Numismatic Society Special Publication No. 7, Spink. Plate on page 150 - No 7.9.

Dolley, R. & Blunt, C. (1961) 'The Chronology of the coins of Ælfred the Great 871-99' in 'Anglo-Saxon Coins Studies Presented to F.M. Stenton on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday', Methuem & Co. Plate X - No 16.

Grueber, H. & Keary, C. (1970) 'A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum. Anglo-Saxon Series, Volume II' Aelfred No. 59 - Plate IV, No. 10

B0366

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Silver

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