The idea of coinage was not a difficult one to grasp, and once the Viking raiders began to settle in England in the late ninth century, they began to issue coins of their own. These small silver pennies were valuable items, and most poor people probably never handled coinage at all. Please find below a small selection of these extremely rare and difficult to find British Viking coins for sale.

Coins might be slightly more convenient than some other forms of silver, but payments continued to be primarily based on the total weight and quality of the silver. Most of the early Viking coins were imitations of more established Saxon coinage. One of the main models for the coinage of the Danelaw was naturally the coinage of Alfred the Great of Wessex, the most powerful ruler in the British Isles. Many Viking coins from the southern Danelaw carried Alfred's name, rather than the name of the rulers who issued them. In East Anglia, the Viking Guthrum, Alfred's godson, issued coins copying the designs of Alfred's coins, but with his own new baptismal name of Athelstan. Other early designs were copied from Byzantine and Frankish coins, reminding us of the wide range of the Vikings' contacts. During the Viking invasion, A.D. 878-964, Viking settlers continued to produce pennies imitating English coins and for their rulers in their own right. Viking coins were minted in East Anglia by Aethelred (A.D. 870); Aethelstan II Guthrum (A.D. 878-890); Oswald (A.D. 890? - known only from coins); Alfdene (A.D. 900); St. Eadmund (Memorial coinage); St. Martin of Lincoln (A.D. 925); and minted in York by Siefred Cnut (A.D. 897); Earl Sihtric (date unknown); Regnald (A.D. 919-921); Sihtric I (A.D. 921-927); Anlaf Guthfrithsson (A.D. 939-941); Anlaf Sihtricsson (A.D. 927, 941-944 and 948-952); Regnald II Guthfrithsson (A.D. 941-943); Sihtric II Sihtricsson (A.D. 942-943); Eric Bloodaxe (A.D. 948 and 952-954)