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AN00361942_001_l. Silver coin (penny) - Cenrea and Burgred. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

AN00154384_001_l. Silver coin (penny) - Ingelgar (moneyer) and Eric Bloodaxe. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

AN00176292_001_l. Metal coin - Cnut, Viking leader in the Danelaw. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

AN00176380_001_l. Metal coin - Brihtmær (moneyer) and King Cnut. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

AN00356336_001_l. Silver coin (penny) - Alfred the Great. Cuerdale hoard. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

AN00131074_001_l. Gold, garnet-inlaid pendant cross with expanded equal arms springing from a central roundel set with a lightweight solidus of Heraclius (613-32). The coin is set in a filigree collar and depicts Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine…

This is a good example of a Sceat (Sceatta?). These prototype gold and silver coins preceded the more recognisable later flat silver pennies.

Found with a metal detector in a field near Ewelme in Oxfordshire, these are not common finds.

This is a silver penny of Queen Cynethryth, wife of Offa. Such coins are very rare finds and even more rarely do they come in good condition. This coin would have been made by hammering a flan of silver between 2 metal dies.

Objects from the Ashmolean 'Anglo-Saxon Discovery' exhibition, 2005:
Cosmetic brush - Cassington, Toilet set - Cassington, Pottery spindlewhorl, Tweezers - Brighthampton, Knife - G5, Firesteel - Brighthampton, Pennanular brooch, Small long brooch, A…

It may be hard to believe, but the design of the central and right-hand coins is based on the Antoninianus (left). It seems that Anglo Saxon coiners had the difficult job of making copies of Roman coins with no access to the originals. They…