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Styca In the name of Hoaud
| Issuer | Kingdom of Northumbria |
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| Year | 850-855 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Irregular, crudely struck hammered copper-alloy flan bearing the royal legend HOAVD REX arranged around the field in debased Latin characters. The inscription, reading 'King Hoaud', is distributed across the flat field without a central device, typical of late Northumbrian styca coinage. The lettering is deeply struck but irregular in form, reflecting the debased monetary standards of mid-ninth-century Northumbria. A beaded border is partially visible around the periphery of the coin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hoaud remains one of the more obscure moneyers operating in Northumbria during the mid-ninth century, a period when the kingdom's coinage had degraded so severely in silver content that stycas were effectively copper tokens in all but name. The progressive debasement had begun decades earlier and accelerated sharply through the 840s and 850s, driven by political instability — Northumbria cycled through at least six kings between 840 and 858, several of whom were deposed or killed. A moneyer like Hoaud was likely serving multiple successive rulers in quick succession.