Sceat
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A sceat or sceatta was a small, thick silver coin minted in England, Frisia, and Jutland during the Anglo-Saxon period that normally weighed 0.8–1.3 grams. It is now more commonly known in England as
O: Diademed bust right, with cross in front
R: Coiled wolf with curled tongue facing right
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Silver sceat of Aldfrith of Northumbria, 685-704.
Thrymsa
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The thrymsa was a gold coin minted in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England. It originated as a copy of Merovingian tremisses and earlier Roman coins with a high gold content. Continued debasement betwe
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…trading center at Ribe. The chronology of the sceattas is also very hard to unravel. Some of the earliest series use the same designs as the pale gold thrymsas (similar to the continental Latin: tremissis; notionally one-third of a pure gold solidus) and, by analogy with coins from the better-understood Frankish…
Gold thrymsa with a figure of Victory enfolding the heads of two small figures. c. 655–675 AD
Thrymsa found in Suffolk, c. 500–675
York thrymsa, metal-detected find