Record ID: ESS-6AA963
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eary Medieval silver coin: penny of Edward the Martyr, minted by Leofric at Ipswich. North 763 / Spink 1142. This coin has also been recorded as EMC 2011.0092. Dr Martin Allen has commented that "the coin is from the same dies as J.C. Sadler, The Ipswich Mint c.973-c.1210 A.D. Volume I. Eadgar to Aethelred II c.973-c.1016 A.D. (2010), p. 30, Fig. 13, and from the same obverse die as a coin of Wilebeart (Sadler, p. 31, Fig. 14). Sadler records only four coins of Ipswich in the reign of Edward the Martyr (two of Leofric and two of Wilebeart), but a coin of a third moneyer, Waetferth, ha…
Created on: Thursday 14th April 2011
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2011
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