Topcat7 Posted July 21 · Member Share Posted July 21 I have been offered some early English coins but I don't know if they are the genuine article or not, so I am looking for some assistance, please. They are silver and weigh 0.061, and 0.051. The largest is 13mm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted July 21 · Supporter Share Posted July 21 They should probably go in the medieval forum. But they're not genuine. 0.061g is impossibly light for silver and you have a die match. I'm not even sure they're meant to be English as the style, legends and flans are wrong. But English pennies vaguely like this are more like 20mm and over 1g. It might be trying to be Aethelred or a Norse coin. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akeady Posted July 21 · Supporter Share Posted July 21 I doubt they're real either. As John Conduitt says above, the attempts at legends are reminiscent of some of the later Hiberno-Norse issues - Phase V, VI? By the Phase V issues, the legends had degenerated into lines like you have above. The weights can't be right - are the units grams? Even the later light Hiberno-Norse coins were close to 1g. ATB, Aidan. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat7 Posted July 21 · Member Author Share Posted July 21 10 hours ago, John Conduitt said: They should probably go in the medieval forum. But they're not genuine. 0.061g is impossibly light for silver and you have a die match. I'm not even sure they're meant to be English as the style, legends and flans are wrong. But English pennies vaguely like this are more like 20mm and over 1g. It might be trying to be Aethelred or a Norse coin. 3 hours ago, akeady said: I doubt they're real either. As John Conduitt says above, the attempts at legends are reminiscent of some of the later Hiberno-Norse issues - Phase V, VI? By the Phase V issues, the legends had degenerated into lines like you have above. The weights can't be right - are the units grams? Even the later light Hiberno-Norse coins were close to 1g. ATB, Aidan. Thank you @John Conduitt and @akeady. Clearly I had doubts, hence the post. The seller claimed they were Hiberno-Manx 1030-34 but I have never heard of that description, and the weights looked 'light' to me too. The coins looked 'fresh' and the legends didn't read right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted July 21 · Supporter Share Posted July 21 Hiberno-Manx are imitations of the Hiberno-Norse coins (whether they were actually Manx or not), so it makes sense to claim these are such crude types. But even they weren't this crude. It seems you'd need close to £10k to buy one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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