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Halfpenny - Eadgar Flower type
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 959-973 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | N D AELFSTAN |
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Eadgar's reign saw the most sweeping monetary reform in pre-Conquest English history — his 973 Ordinance of Edgar mandated a unified national coinage, replacing the fragmented regional issues that had accumulated under his predecessors. The Flower type predates that reform, placing this piece in the earlier, less regulated phase of his kingship when moneyers still operated with considerably more local latitude.
Halfpennies of this period were cut from pennies as often as they were struck independently, which makes purpose-struck examples genuinely scarce.