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Penny - Eadgar Portrait type
| Issuer | Kingdom of England |
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| Year | 959-973 |
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| Currency | Penny (924-1158) |
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| Obverse description | Crude bust of King Eadgar (Edgar) facing right in the hammered Anglo-Saxon style, depicted with a diadem or fillet around the head. The portrait is rendered in a stylised, two-dimensional manner typical of late Anglo-Saxon coinage, with pellet or annulet detailing visible on the neck and face. The royal effigy is surrounded by a beaded inner circle. The legend + EADGAR REX runs around the periphery, identifying the king. The entire design is contained within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | + EADGAR REX (Translation: King Edgar) |
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Eadgar's pre-reform coinage is frequently overshadowed by the celebrated Reform issue of 973, but the years between his accession and that standardization represent a transitional minting period of genuine historical interest. Regional moneyers operated under inconsistent supervision, producing coins that vary considerably in fabric and execution — not from incompetence, but because no unified national standard yet existed. The Reform that followed was deliberately designed to correct exactly this.
North 750 encompasses significant variation across minting centers, and attribution to specific moneyers or towns can substantially affect collectibility.