Penny - Eadred Floral type

Eadred's reign was consumed almost entirely by the struggle to hold Northumbria, which flip-flopped between English and Norse Viking control no fewer than three times before Eric Bloodaxe was killed at Stannmore in 954, finally ending Scandinavian kingship in York. Coins from this reign are accordingly scarce — the political instability disrupted the northern mints severely, and surviving examples attributable to named moneyers remain difficult to locate.

The Floral type is one of several distinct issues sharing the nine-year reign, catalogued separately by North precisely because moneyer and mint attribution helps reconstruct which regions were under firm West Saxon administrative control at any given point.