The Helmet Coinage of

Æthelred II

 

 
1003-1009
BMC viii
Hildebrand E
Seaby # 1152
North # 775

 

Image Description Notes

 

 

  • Penny
  • ALFǷ•OLD MΩO BAÐ
  • 1.40gm/18.82mm

 

 

 Bath; SCBI 24-West Country: 570(die match)
  • Penny
  • ELFRIC: MO LEGCE
  • 1.28gm/18.90mm
  • Found in the Baltic region before 2019
 Chester; moneyer not listed in North for this mint, there is an ÆLFRIC known at Leicester, the first letter of the moneyer on this coin is definitely E.
  • Penny
  • ÆLFMÆR MΩO EAXE
  • 1.11gm/18.90mm
 Exeter; SCBI 50-St Petersburg I: 993(die match), scarce moneyer

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÆÐELZTAN M-O HV•
  • 1.43gm/18.84mm
  • EX: CNG Electronic Auction 471(1 July 2020), lot 594; CNG Electronic Auction 464(20 March 2020), lot 294; Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, CNG 105(10 May 2017). lot 1198; Kunker 274(16 March 2016), lot 3123; Classical Numismatic Review 41 No. 2, Summer 2016, 431199

 


 Huntington; SCBI 7-Copenhagen: 442(same dies); SCBI 50-Hermitage Part 1; 1007(similar); See Eaglen, Huntingdon 94 (dies D/c). Unusual variety with "runes" in the field before the bust. See Eaglen BNJ 69(1999), page 106, coin 94.

 

 

  • Penny
  • LOFǷINE MΩO LÆE•
  • 1.44gm/20.00mm
  • EX: From tthe Londinium Collection sold at CNG Electroinc Auction 436(23 January 2019), lot 1022; purchased from York Coins

 


 Lewes; SCBI 7-Copenhagen: 464(die match); SCBI 50-Hermitage: 1019(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • O•S•GVT• MΩO LINC
  • 1.44gm/19.79mm

 


 Lincoln; See English Coins in the British Museum, v.2, page 223, coin 171 for a similar coin.

 

 

  • Penny
  • GOD•A M•O LVNDEN
  • 1.41gm/19.66mm
  • EX Kunker eLive Auction 42, Session 2(19 October 2016), lot 477

 

London; SCBI 51-Estonia: 334(die match); SCBI 65- Norwegian I: 966(die match); SCBI 68 - Lyon Collection: 824(die match)
  • Penny
  • LEOFǷINE MO LVND
  • Helmet
  • BMC viii, Hild. E
  • 1.20gm/18.76mm
  • S 1152
  • N 0775
  • Found August 2022 in Harjumaa, Estonia
 London; SCBI 50-St Petersburg I: 1058(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • SǷETINC MΩO LVND
  • 1.52gm/19.40mm

 

 

London; SCBI 7- Copenhagen II: 943, 944(reverse die match); SCBI 9-Ashmolean I: 597(die match); SCBI 25-Helsinki: 412(die match); SCBI 50-Hermatige I: 1064(die match); SCBI 65-Norwegian I: 981 & 982(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • ǷVLFSTAN MO LVN
  • 1.00gm/19.00mm
  • EX: Mike Vosper; W. Howarth Collection

 

 

 London

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÆLF•RIC M•-•O NOR•
  • 1.03gm/18.56mm

 

 

 Norwich; SCBI 20-Mack: 995(die match); SCBI 26-East Anglian: 1192 &1193(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • ÆÐELSIGE MO HEAM
  • 1.19gm/20.00mm
  • From the Maj. Gen. Adrian Lyons, CBE Collection; EX: Baldwins Auction 44(2 May 2016), lot 862

 

 

 Southampton: SCBI 36-Berlin: 496(die match); SCBI 65-Norwegian I: 1007(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • GODÆG MO STAN
  • 1.22gm/20.12mm
  • EX: DNW Auction 189(10 March 2021), lot 572

 

 

 Stamford

 

 

  • Penny
  • GODǷINE MO STAN
  • 0.87gm/19.00mm

 

 

 Stamford; No other examples of this mint/ moneyer/type recorded in the Sylloge, Hildebrand, EMC or BMC with the exception of EMC 1995.0168 which is a die match to this coin.

 

 

  • Penny
  • OSBER•N MΩO ÐEOD
  • 1.37gm/ 19.30mm
  • EX: CNG Electronic Auction 245(1 December 2010), Lot 487

 

 

 Thetford: SCBI 50-St Petersburg I:1096(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • OSMÆR MΩO ǷERIC
  • 1.09gm/18.49mm
  • EX: Late John Hulett(Part XVII) sold at DNW 173(08 April 2020); lot 5; Spink Numismatic Circular June 2005 #HS2074

 

 

 Warwick; Scarce type for the mint, only four found in the SCBI, all from another moneyer and none in the EMC; see N. J. Ebsworth, BNJ 34(1965), "The Anglo-Saxon and Norman mint of Warwick, " die match to coin 5 in the listing of Helmet pennies of this mint and moneyer

 

 

  • Penny
  • BYR•VNSTN MO ǷINT
  • 1.38gm/19.17mm
  • From the Maj. Gen. Adrian Lyons, CBE Collection(ticket), Ex; St. James Auction 4(8 May 2006), lot 57; Duke of Argyll, sold to Spink 1949; John Dudman of Winchmore Hill, Sotheby's(15 December 1913), lot 239

 


 Winchester; SCBI 51-Estonia: 357(die match)

 

 

  • Penny
  • OVÐGR•IM M-O EO
  • 1.37gm/20.39mm
  • EX: WCN Electronic Auction 200109(9 January 2020), lot 140583

 


 York; SCBI 7-Copenhagen: 294(die match)

 

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