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Penny - Eadmund Helmeted portrait type
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 939-946 |
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| Value | 1 Penny |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted bust of King Eadmund facing right, rendered in the bold, stylised manner typical of mid-tenth-century Anglo-Saxon coinage. The effigy is set within a beaded inner circle, with the royal legend disposed around the periphery of the flan. The helmet is depicted with a prominent nasal guard. Letter forms are angular and characteristic of the period's die-cutting style. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Eadmund inherited the throne at roughly 18 years old following the death of his half-brother Æthelstan in 939, and his seven-year reign was consumed almost entirely by the struggle to hold the Danelaw. He lost York and the Five Boroughs to the Norse king Olaf Guthfrithson almost immediately upon accession, recovering them only in 942. The coinage reflects this instability — production was fragmented across moneyers operating under shifting political authority, and attribution of individual pieces to specific mints remains contested in the literature.