My first Anglo Saxon coin

[Amarmur]

I recently won an Anglo Saxon secatta. It's a fairly interesting one I like the Roman influence on it. Please share your Anglo Saxon coins. Its a type G S-800. I like early England but this material is so tough to find and expensive. 

[John Conduitt]

That's a great coin. The design might even be a little degraded, as English coins tend to be rather than Continental.

Series G Type 3a Secondary Phase Anglo Saxon Sceatta, 710-760

Southern England or Quentovic, France. Silver, 1.00g. Diademed and draped bust right, radiating hair, beads before, almond-shaped eye, crescent ear and collar, cross pommée before lips. Beaded standard, central pellet-in-annulet, saltire crosses in corners, pellets between (S 800; SCBI 69, 319 this coin). Ex Tony Abramson. Found at Fimber, near York (EMC 2005.0263 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 102).

[John Conduitt]

Here's a degraded imitation.

Series G Contemporary Imitation Secondary Phase Anglo Saxon Sceatta, 710-760

Base metal, 13mm, 0.83g. Bust right with straight diadem, arm holding long cross. Degraded standard containing three crosses and a trefoil of pellets around central annulet (cf. SCBI Abramson 331/315; S 800).

Edited November 9, 2024 by John Conduitt

[wuntbedruv]

4 hours ago, Amarmur said:

I recently won an Anglo Saxon secatta. It's a fairly interesting one I like the Roman influence on it. Please share your Anglo Saxon coins. Its a type G S-800. I like early England but this material is so tough to find and expensive. 

Nice coin. Plated, as many series G are. This type is found both on the Continent as well as England. 

[Amarmur]

3 hours ago, John Conduitt said:

Here's a degraded imitation.

Series G Contemporary Imitation Secondary Phase Anglo Saxon Sceatta, 710-760

Base metal, 13mm, 0.83g. Bust right with straight diadem, arm holding long cross. Degraded standard containing three crosses and a trefoil of pellets around central annulet (cf. SCBI Abramson 331/315; S 800).

Very nice! It's a market I'm interested in but I'm not sure what to collect because the Pennie's featuring Anglo-Saxon kings are bit out of reach for me. 

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

Very cool!  Sadly I have no Anglo-Saxon coins to share.

[John Conduitt]

1 hour ago, Amarmur said:

Very nice! It's a market I'm interested in but I'm not sure what to collect because the Pennie's featuring Anglo-Saxon kings are bit out of reach for me. 

Well, you're not alone there. Many of them are thousands of pounds.

Sceattas aren't all so expensive. Many, especially primary series (A-F), can be a fair bit less than £200. Some secondary sceattas are similar, like Series G, J, N and R. It's only if you want a 'wodan head' or some sort of monster that they quickly get into the thousands. Northumbrian stycas are similar, with only a few kings extremely rare and expensive.

The most affordable pennies are Aethelred II and Cnut, but even those are £300+ in reasonable condition. There are about half a dozen kings from there to £1000, non-portrait coins especially. Burgred tends to have nice condition portrait coins, but you are already at £1000. After that they get seriously expensive, either because it's someone famous like Alfred the Great, or because there really are not many coins of each ruler.

Burgred Lunette Type A Penny, 868-874

London. Silver, 19.5mm, 1.36g. Bust (type V5) right; BURGREDREX+. +BEAGZTA in between [N]MON | ETA (Beagstan moneyer); two lunettes divide the legend (S 938).

[ela126]

I have a few of the common kings (Aethelred II, Cnut, ETC). As was mentioned the the jump in prices made me switch gears to where I settled with Byzantine bronze. If funds were less limited, I’d aim for the 9th and 10th century Saxon. Here is my pretty nice Aethelred II I won from the Historic Scholar collection at Heritage early in 2023.

 

[Nap]

Sceattas are addictive, be careful you don’t get the bug!  Suddenly you might end up with over 100 of them.  Don’t ask me how I know.

[Dafydd]

Here is my Aethelred penny.

 

England. Aethelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (20mm, 1.42g, 12h). Crux type (BMC iiia, Hild. C). London mint; moneyer Æthelred. Struck circa 991-997. + ÆDELRED REX ?NGLOX, bareheaded draped bust left with scepter in front / +ÆDERED M#O LVN, short cross voided, C R V X in angles. BEH 2205; North 770; SCBI 7 (Copenhagen), 708; SCBI 65 (Norway), 255. Very Fine.

 

 

[Roerbakmix]

On 11/13/2024 at 6:57 PM, Nap said:

Sceattas are addictive, be careful you don’t get the bug!  Suddenly you might end up with over 100 of them.  Don’t ask me how I know.

So true! I bought my first sceatta - a series D, BMC type 2c in 2019:

EARLY MEDIEVAL, Anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (Series D, type 2c (uncertain subgroup)), minted: Possibly England; 695-715 AD
Obv: Abstract head, garbled legend
Rev: Central cross with four pellets around, below annulet, above cross-pommee, runic letters around.
Weight: 1.08g; Ø:13 mm. Catalogue: Abramson 8-10. Provenance: Bought from M. Eldijk, who bought it from the finder; acq.: 09-2019
Find location: Unknown Published: no
Series D (Continental Runetype), Type 2c, sub-variety 3c (with head right (it often faces left in sub-variety 3c), reverse die-match to the major 3c die-chain). Based on find-material, these are quite possibly English imitations of the continental sceattas, which in turn are imitations of early English Sceattas.

... and since then, I've bought 114 sceatta's, 4 tremisses and two Anglo-Saxon pennies! And @Napcertainly fueled this addiction 😉

Sceatta's can be very expensive, but with some patience, you'll find cheaper ones, such as the 'porcupine' series E or the series D sceatta (as the one above) for 100-150€ in decent condition. 

[Vel Saties]

On 11/13/2024 at 6:57 PM, Nap said:

Sceattas are addictive, be careful you don’t get the bug!  Suddenly you might end up with over 100 of them.  Don’t ask me how I know.

Unfortunately I'm noticing it, damn.
Damn sceattas

[panzerman]

I sadly have NO Anglo-Saxon coins/ veeery $$$$$$$$. Hope to get a AV Thysma next year.

Thanks for sharing your!

John