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KM37071

Danish East Anglia, St Edmund Coinage, Penny, Onnonea moneyer, MS62

Regular price £1,750
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Anglo-Viking, Danish East Anglia (c.885-915), St Edmund,Memorial Coinage, silver Penny, moneyer Onnonea, unbarred A at centre with tiny crescent above, within linear circle, semi-barbarous legend commences at 4 o'clock with outer linear circle surrounding, +SC LA'MVND, the S supine, A unbarred, N retrograde, crescent between A and M,rev.inverted die axis, cross at centre within linear circle, legend and outer linear circle surrounding, +oNII oNIAIP.I (BMC 490; N.483; S.961).Toned, with good metal though of a barbarous style, unusual moneyer, has been slabbed and graded by PCGS as MS62.

PCGS Certification 896107.62/50500039.

Following the Treaty of Wedmore in 880 the Viking invaders were granted lands to the east of Watling Street with coinage for circulation following soon after at first imitating the Wessex types of Alfred. Independent coinages followed for East Anglia like this piece, the East Midlands and Northumbria. The St Edmund coinage could have been issued or encouraged by the Christianised warlord Guthrum who took control from circa 880 and was a follower of the cult of Saint Edmund based upon the earlier heroic sacrifice of King Eadmund of East Anglia (855-870).

The obverse legend translates as "Saint Edmund" and the reverse "Onnonea".

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