EXTREMELY RARE 'Double Reverse' Viking Penny Silver, 1.08 grams; 22.84 mm. An extremely rare Viking imitation of an Anglo Saxon coin of King Æthelstan. Obverse: +EERNARTITEIRDOT, around small cross in centre. Reverse: +VVSIGEMOVVEREH, around small cross in centre, moneyer Wulfsige at Wareham. Half outer edge missing otherwise extremely fine. Early Medieval Corpus registration number at the Fitzwilliam Museum: EMC 2008.0299. Found North Yorkshire.
A leading Museum expert at the Fitzwilliam Museum writes: The fragment from North Yorkshire is from the same dies as an imitation of the coinage of Æthelstan in Copenhagen (SCBI 4, 705) reading +EERNARTITEIRDOT on the obverse and +VVSIGEMOVVEREH on the reverse (copying a coin of the Wareham moneyer Wulfsige). £0.00  |