The Portable Antiquities Scheme
EARLY MEDIEVAL COIN
827
Early Medieval silver penny of Athelstan I of East Anglia (c.825-c.845), Portrait type, short cross pattee with a wedge in each angle reverse (new variant), minted by Monn, probably at Ipswich, c.827-830 AD, North (1994:103) 436var.The coin is damaged with c.15-20% of the outer circle missing due to an old break to one side.The reverse type on this coin is similar to those on the non portrait types north 441 and 445 (BMC 6).
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