The Coinage of
St Edmundsbury and surrounds

 

Anglo Saxon and Viking Coins

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East Anglian later Series R sceat (sceat pronounced 'shat')
735-740 AD (Mark Blackburn)

Aethelberht II King of East Anglia
c 792 AD

Aethelweard King of East Anglia
c 845-855 AD

Sceat with runic characters EP visible, but mostly blundered

The wolf and children, symbols of the
Wuffing Kings of East Anglia

Aethelweard Coin
Moneyer TWICGA

EADMUND REX AN(glorum)
855-869 AD

EADMUND REX AN(glorum)
Edmund, King of the Angles

Late Edmund memorial coin
905-918 AD (Mark Blackburn)
MCRNTO

TWIC(G)A MON
Twicga, moneyer for Edmund King of East Anglia
(The angular P is a runic W)

This pattern by
the moneyer Beornforth

Christian revival by the Vikings
ONNIOD

King Aethelred II 978-1016 (the Unready)
EDELRED REX ANGLO??
Blob from damaged die
Long Cross type 997-1003

King Canute 1016-1035
Short cross type
CNVT RECX

Edward the Confessor 1042-1066
Pointed helmet type of 1053-1056
EDWED REX

Minted by Mana in Thetford
MA/NAM/?OD/EOD

Minted by AElfwine in Thetford
ELFWINE ON DEO

Minted by Estmund of Thetford
ESTMVND ON DEOT

Pageant Medallion issued in 1907

King Coenwulf of Mercia 796-821
It illustrates the supremacy of Mercia over East Anglia at this period.
COENVULF REX

The central portion is a copy of a Viking memorial coin of St Edmund

King Coenwulf of Mercia 796-821
This coin was found at Pakenham in the 1970s, and is ascribed to an East Anglian mint.
Moneyer WODEL

These coins are from before 1066, but after the Romans left
More coins can be seen in Moyse's Hall Museum


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