Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
Styca - Aethelred II 1st reign
| Uitgever | Kingdom of Northumbria |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 841-844 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Gewicht | Log in om details te zien |
| Diameter | Log in om details te zien |
| Dikte | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Techniek | Log in om details te zien |
| Oriëntatie | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Irregular hammered flan with a central field bearing the royal name EDILRED REX arranged in two or more lines, the lettering executed in the angular, somewhat crude epigraphic style characteristic of late Northumbrian stycas. A small cross pattée or cross symbol appears prominently in the upper portion of the field, serving as a devotional device. The legend, reading 'King Aethelred', is distributed across the field rather than as a continuous peripheral inscription, reflecting the degenerate die-cutting conventions of mid-ninth-century York. The surface displays a pronounced patina of green and grey corrosion typical of the debased copper alloy used in this series. |
|---|---|
| Schrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift voorzijde | EDILRED REX (Translation: King Aethelred.) |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Schrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Rand | Log in om details te zien |
| Muntplaats | Log in om details te zien |
| Oplage | Log in om details te zien |
| Aanvullende informatie |
Aethelred II's first reign ended when he was driven out by a nobleman named Redwulf, who seized the Northumbrian throne in 844 and issued his own stycas before being killed by Viking raiders the same year. The styca series as a whole had been debasing steadily throughout the ninth century — earlier issues contain measurable silver, but by Aethelred's time the alloy had collapsed almost entirely to copper and lead, a slide that mirrors Northumbria's shrinking political coherence in the face of Scandinavian pressure.