Aethelred II Penny, Crux, Dorset

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Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, Crux type (c.991-997), Wareham mint, Dorset, moneyer Aelfgar, bare headed bust left, in front trefoil tipped sceptre, legend surrounds +ÆĐELRÆD REX ΛNGLORX, ORX ligatured. Rev, short…
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Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, Crux type (c.991-997), Wareham mint, Dorset, moneyer Aelfgar, bare headed bust left, in front trefoil tipped sceptre, legend surrounds +ÆĐELRÆD REX ΛNGLORX, ORX ligatured. Rev, short cross voided with CRVX letters in angles, reading +ÆLGΛR M¯O PER, 1.57g (S.1148; N.770; BMC III; SCBI 7 [Copenhagen], 1291; SCBI 24 [West Country Museums], 484-85). A handful of Wareham mint Crux types appear in the coin archives database, most showing surface wear, cracks, wavy flans and or perforations. Our specimen with portrait bold, some doubling and precise legend inscriptions. A well balanced piece, few peckmarks, a deceptively bold very fine, obverse nearer extremely fine. Very rare.

Bt Spink by private treaty, February 1966, £25.

The Wareham mint situated between the rivers Frome and Piddle, 15 miles east of Dorsetshire, an active and flourishing port in the Saxon period and referenced in the Burghal Hidage, an Anglo-Saxon document highlighting fortified locations and relevant information relating to imposed taxes [numbers of hides]. Active as a mint in the reigns of Aethelstan, Edgar to King Stephen, Matilda and the Baronial period, further reading BNJ 5 (1909). Historically, outside of the time period concerned here, excavations have shown evidence for early Mesolithic activity through to the Bronze age, the Roman period and eventually the transition to the Saxon time frame.

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