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This book records, illustrates, and discusses the context of more than 1,000 coins from the Anglo-Saxon period, assembled by the author during 60 years of scholarly research and deposited by him in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, on lifetime loan. The composition of the collection reflects this research and is therefore particularly strong in the so-called sceattas and stycas of the kingdom of Northumbria, and also in silver pennies of Edward the Elder from the early 10th century, as well as the issues of Æthelred II and Cnut which immediately preceded and followed the former's death in 1016. A textual chapter discusses and points to a resolution of the discrepancy in 9th-century Northumbrian chronology as presented by Norman historians and from analysis of the coinage. A later chapter reviews the evidence of documents, hoards and the analytical study of the surviving coinage for the dates and durations of its periodic renewal in the fifty years after its reform by Edgar c.973.

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Author:   Stewart Lyon (Independent scholar)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   68
Dimensions:   Width: 20.10cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.70cm
Weight:   1.276kg
ISBN:  

9780197266021

ISBN 10:   0197266029
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   05 January 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PREFACE LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES PART I Introduction Synopsis 1: Southumbrian England to c. 750 2: The Kingdom of Northumbria 3: Southumbrian England from c. 750 to the Arrival of the Viking 4: Monetary Unification and the First Viking Campaign 5: Viking Coinages in the Danelaw, c. 895-927 6: Alfred's Monetary Reform and the Expansion of English Minting 7: The Mid-Tenth Century, 939-c. 973 8: Coinage Renewal and Weight Variation in the Fifty Years after Edgar's Reform OF c. 973 9: From 1023/4 to the Norman Conquest 10: Norman Kings and other Coinages PART II 1: Catalogue Collectors, Dealers, etc. Abbreviations Bibliography Arrangement of the catalogue Plates Index of mints Index of moneyers Index of finds

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Educated at Liverpool College and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD). President, British Numismatic Society 1966-70 (currently a Vice-President) and Sanford Saltus gold medallist 1974. An actuary by profession; President of the Institute of Actuaries 1982-84.

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