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Poland, Imitative Aethelred II AR Penny. Crux type. Area of Pomerania, circa 1000-1020. OҺPE(?)..., disjointed male head to right / IO-E..., voided cross with crescent ends and X in each quarter. Unpublished in the standard references, for general types see: The Lupow Find 136 (1887), in Frühmittelalterische Münfunde aus Polen, Inventar II (Pommern), pp. 397–40, cf. obverse 702 and reverse 734; and for Swedish prototypes cf. B. Malmer, Den Svenska Mynthistorien, Vikingatiden ca 995-1030, (Stockholm, 2010), Period II, 458 (from Gotland); cf. Dalzanno 2021, 7-33; for English prototype, cf. SCBI 1148. 1.30g, 18mm, 10h.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
From a private European collection.
This interesting penny is derived from a Scandinavian imitative example of the coinage of Aethelred II of England that was struck in the time of Olof Skötkonung (circa 995-1022), rather than directly from an English prototype.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
From a private European collection.
This interesting penny is derived from a Scandinavian imitative example of the coinage of Aethelred II of England that was struck in the time of Olof Skötkonung (circa 995-1022), rather than directly from an English prototype.