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Penny - Eadred Rosette type
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 946-955 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a small cross pattée occupies the central field. The royal title legend, rendered in Latin capital letters, encircles the inner circle and is bounded by a beaded outer border. The lettering is characteristic of mid-tenth-century Anglo-Saxon hammered coinage, with angular letterforms typical of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | + EΛDRED REX (Translation: King Eadred) |
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Eadred's reign was consumed almost entirely by the struggle to hold Northumbria, which twice fell back under Viking control — first under Eric Bloodaxe, then briefly under Olaf Sihtricsson. The Rosette type was struck during this turbulent decade when royal authority north of the Humber was more aspiration than fact, and coin production itself was a deliberate instrument of asserting English kingship over a territory that refused to stay won. Eric Bloodaxe was finally expelled and killed at Stainmore in 954, just one year before Eadred's death.