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Sceat - Beonna

Issuer King Beonna (East Anglia)
Year 757-760
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Diameter 13 mm
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Edge Plain
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Beonna is notable as the first East Anglian ruler to strike coins in his own name following a decades-long gap in the regional series. His reign coincided with a period of contested authority — Æthelberht II and a third ruler named Alberht appear to have shared or disputed kingship simultaneously, a political arrangement poorly understood and only partially reconstructed from the numismatic record itself. These sceattas represent nearly the entirety of what survives to document his rule.

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