IDENTIFIERS
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id:	216783
accession number:	CM.519-2000

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 21 July 2014
updated:	Wednesday 17 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: This is a significant coin, as it provides evidence to suggest that there was a mint operating in Wessex, as well as Kent, in the mid-9th century.  The style of this coin is quite unlike that of the Canterbury coins.  The moneyer Osric is not otherwise recorded for this reign, but he is known from a single coin of Æthelwulf (839- 58), which is also in an unusual style.  These two coins were probably struck at Winchester, an attribution supported by the find provenance.
title:	penny

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Found Stanmore, Herts, 3.10.1979


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/216783





CATEGORIES
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category: coin

DATING
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creation date:	865 - 865
creation date earliest:	865
creation date latest:	865

CREATORS
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maker: Æthelred I (865-71)
maker: Osric
maker: West Saxon mint