Ruler:
Æthelred II (AD 978–1016)
Moneyer:
Hild
Mint:
Melton Mowbray
This is only the third-known coin of this mint and it allows us to see a much fuller form of the mint name. Hitherto, when only MEÐ could be read, it was identified as the mint of the Abbey of Peterborough (Medehamstede), but this new coin shows that to be wrong. Meðeltun, now seen on the coin, is a classic Old English form of modern Middleton, Malton or Melton. The three surviving coins are linked by moneyers and style with Lincoln and Stamford, and so the mint is likely to be within the Five Boroughs, the most appropriate town being Melton Mobray, Leics. This coin is highly important, not merely for identifying a new Anglo-Saxon mint, but for removing an otherwise exceptional attribution of a mint to the Abbey of Peterborough. [See Mark Blackburn, ‘Metheltun not Medeshamstede: an Anglo-Saxon mint at Melton Mowbray rather than Peterborough Abbey’, British Numismatic Journal 70 (2000), pp. 143-5]
History note: Found near Easton, Hampshire, 1999
Method of acquisition: Bought (1999-10-11) by Steele, A.
978 -
Object composed of silver Diameter 20.2 mm Die Axis 0 degrees Weight 1.14 g
Accession number: CM.428-1999
Primary reference Number: 217594
North: 766
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Coins and Medals
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