Cut silver penny (Harold?)

[woody50]

Just though I would show you all the neat cut silver penny I found this afternoon in the falling rain.
This 1/2 cut penny was the best of 4 hammered silver pennies that I found.

It appears to be a Harold I penny which would have been from 1035-1040 when he was King of England for five years (he lived from 1016 to 1040).

Just look a the quality of the coin, I would have loved to find the whole penny before it was cut.

 

[olekyground]

Sweet recovery! Thanks for showing it!

 

[CRUSADER]

Got home and made a better photo...

Much better photo, but I don't have enough experience to work out those letters, they confuse the hell out of me, sorry.

 

[woody50]

Much better photo, but I don't have enough experience to work out those letters, they confuse the hell out of me, sorry.

Well me too, so I have to depend on others who know these coins better. In any case the nose of the King is on the right side of the half, looks like a point nose! His eye is there also and something that looks like hippy hair. In front of him he holds a scepter.

I can agree with you it could also be Harthacnut, here is a photo of a such a coin (other coiner or mint that for sure).

 

[CRUSADER]

Well me too, so I have to depend on others who know these coins better. In any case the nose of the King is on the right side of the half, looks like a point nose! His eye is there also and something that looks like hippy hair. In front of him he holds a scepter.

I can agree with you it could also be Harthacnut, here is a photo of a such a coin (other coiner or mint that for sure).

That one you picture is easy to read, but your letters are odd, looks like 2 'R's together.

 

[Mzjavert]

I can not imagine finding a coin that's a 1,000 years old. Congratulations on finding such a sweet piece of history.

 

[woody50]

Cru, I found this one in a De Wit Collection auction in Germany. The only one I could find with the reverse having such a fleur-de-lis between two pellets. Although it seems like an other mint, can't read the letters clear enough.

(to see the attachment better, just click on it).

 

[CRUSADER]

Cru, I found this one in a De Wit Collection auction in Germany. The only one I could find with the reverse having such a fleur-de-lis between two pellets. Although it seems like an other mint, can't read the letters clear enough.

(to see the attachment better, just click on it).

That helps. I can now work out the letters on yours & it is Harold!
[+HAR]OLD RE[X R]

 

[woody50]

That helps. I can now work out the letters on yours & it is Harold!
[+HAR]OLD RE[X R]

Great. I cannot read clearly the maker or place, but will ask around.

Say, just a question to clear up some comments that my friends asked.

What do you call the Roman coins that are in very bad or teribble condition? Are there more than one name used in England that you know about.
And is there then also a name for older English coins that are in the same condition?

Thanks Cru!

 

[CRUSADER]

Great. I cannot read clearly the maker or place, but will ask around.

Say, just a question to clear up some comments that my friends asked.

What do you call the Roman coins that are in very bad or teribble condition? Are there more than one name used in England that you know about.
And is there then also a name for older English coins that are in the same condition?

Thanks Cru!

Most people call Roman Coins in bad conditions 'grots'. I'm not sure if I was the first to call them Scrappies but it's what Dad & I use & its catching on.

Not sure what you mean by old English Coins but if you mean Georgian period, the bad halfpennies etc do have a name but I forget/don't use one.

 

[woody50]

Most people call Roman Coins in bad conditions 'grots'. I'm not sure if I was the first to call them Scrappies but it's what Dad & I use & its catching on.

Not sure what you mean by old English Coins but if you mean Georgian period, the bad halfpennies etc do have a name but I forget/don't use one.

Thanks Cru!

 

[HISPAN]

A Great coin although this cut !

 

[Silver Searcher]

Nice Harold Harefoot, there isn't much of the legend to go on to Id the moneyer, and you have to remember that most coin makers, and die makers were ilitrate, and often the letters were backwards.
But a very rare coin to find, be it cut or not, I would certainly have like to have found it. Cut coins are worth usually 10% of the full coin, perhaps more depending on the type and how it's struck. Although yours is slightly week on the reverse.

Sorry I couldn't post when you found this, I was unable to.

SS

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice!!