IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	217594
accession number:	CM.428-1999

DATE AUDIT
----------
created:	Monday 3 July 2017
updated:	Wednesday 17 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: 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]
title:	penny

NOTES
-----
type: history note
value: Found near Easton, Hampshire, 1999


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

OWNERSHIP
---------
instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
----------
url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/217594





CATEGORIES
------
category: coin

DATING
------
creation date:	978 - 978
creation date earliest:	978
creation date latest:	978

CREATORS
--------
maker: Æthelred II (AD 978–1016)
maker: Hild
maker: Melton Mowbray