Great day yesterday

[ohannos]

Yesterday was the first hunt of the year and it could not have started much better. The weather was perfect at the vikingsite in eastern Denmark and it was great to just get that dust of the X terra.
To the finds:
My share of silver consisted of three pieces.
1. really small piece of arabic silver coin.
2. Piece of hacksilver.
3. Fragment of either a penny from Aethelred II or a scandinavian imitation ( if any of the UK guys have any thoughts about id, feel free to comment)
4. Cool miniature horse.

All in all a very pleasing day at very "hunted out" spot

 

[hikeinmts]

Can't help you with any i.d. on the items you found. But I can give you an attaboy for a great hunt.
Hope some of the stuff turns out to be authentic, and valuable,,,,,,,,for you.

 

[rogues71]

nice pieces

 

[RiverRat3]

Nice finds, can't help with the id.

 

[CRUSADER]

Withoutout looking at my books, it seems to be a penny from Aethelred II. I may get time later to check


As you say, a very good start to the season 8) 8)

 

[ohannos]

Thanks for the comments. Aethelred II seems to be a good candidate for id. A scandinavian imitation of Olof Skötkonung ( first swedish king to mint coins) would be a really cool alternative.

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks for the comments. Aethelred II seems to be a good candidate for id. A scandinavian imitation of Olof Skötkonung ( first swedish king to mint coins) would be a really cool alternative.

Too many moneyer & mint combinations to narrow down on the reverse. However the Obv fits ok:
.............REX ANGLO (its the X & A thats visible)

 

[CRUSADER]

Changed my mind, must be an imitation, as it finishes in 'X A' & should finish in ANGLO.

 

[ohannos]

Changed my mind, must be an imitation, as it finishes in 'X A' & should finish in ANGLO.

Yey! Thats great news if thats the case. I could not find any of Aethelreds coins that finishes the way my coin does and was thinking thait either Im missing some variant or its either an imitation. I was really hoping for an scandinavian imitation since they are rarer so now i just have to get the proper books on imitations, a fun task!
Thanks for the input Cru

 

[CRUSADER]

Changed my mind, must be an imitation, as it finishes in 'X A' & should finish in ANGLO.

Yey! Thats great news if thats the case. I could not find any of Aethelreds coins that finishes the way my coin does and was thinking thait either Im missing some variant or its either an imitation. I was really hoping for an scandinavian imitation since they are rarer so now i just have to get the proper books on imitations, a fun task!
Thanks for the input Cru

Definitely rarer, the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC) Fitzwilliam museum only have 1 record of this type of imitation.

 

[ohannos]

Changed my mind, must be an imitation, as it finishes in 'X A' & should finish in ANGLO.

Yey! Thats great news if thats the case. I could not find any of Aethelreds coins that finishes the way my coin does and was thinking thait either Im missing some variant or its either an imitation. I was really hoping for an scandinavian imitation since they are rarer so now i just have to get the proper books on imitations, a fun task!
Thanks for the input Cru

Definitely rarer, the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC) Fitzwilliam museum only have 1 record of this type of imitation.

That sounds promising.
Did you manage to find it in the EMC online database? If so, i would be very grateful for a link :P
Thanks!

 

[allen]

if i could find something like that
i'd still be on cloud number 9 !

 

[CRUSADER]

Changed my mind, must be an imitation, as it finishes in 'X A' & should finish in ANGLO.

Yey! Thats great news if thats the case. I could not find any of Aethelreds coins that finishes the way my coin does and was thinking thait either Im missing some variant or its either an imitation. I was really hoping for an scandinavian imitation since they are rarer so now i just have to get the proper books on imitations, a fun task!
Thanks for the input Cru

Definitely rarer, the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC) Fitzwilliam museum only have 1 record of this type of imitation.

That sounds promising.
Did you manage to find it in the EMC online database? If so, i would be very grateful for a link :P
Thanks!

I thought I found one under 'N 774 (Long Cross) (Scandinavian imitation)' but it now just shows an error message 'Error 1146: Table 'cm_emc.gallifrey' doesn't exist'

So they might have none!

 

[Mr Tuff]

neat finds!! MR TUFF

 

[ohannos]

Changed my mind, must be an imitation, as it finishes in 'X A' & should finish in ANGLO.

Yey! Thats great news if thats the case. I could not find any of Aethelreds coins that finishes the way my coin does and was thinking thait either Im missing some variant or its either an imitation. I was really hoping for an scandinavian imitation since they are rarer so now i just have to get the proper books on imitations, a fun task!
Thanks for the input Cru

Definitely rarer, the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC) Fitzwilliam museum only have 1 record of this type of imitation.

That sounds promising.
Did you manage to find it in the EMC online database? If so, i would be very grateful for a link :P
Thanks!

I thought I found one under 'N 774 (Long Cross) (Scandinavian imitation)' but it now just shows an error message 'Error 1146: Table 'cm_emc.gallifrey' doesn't exist'

So they might have none!

Weird! I tried searching on N 774 and got the same message
Anyway, i appreciate the help and i hope to come up with a correct id in time
Cheers!