Silver Saxon penny of Anlaf Guthfrithsson
Pablo:
hi
I'm a coin collector and not so long time ago I purchased saxon penny. I'm not specialist in hammered coins. Just want to make sure that this coin is genuine.
Any information about the coin are welcome. Looks like London mint.
probono:
Well who knows? There was one that sold recently on CNG for $29,000, Mike Vosper has recently sold one with cracks for £2500 and there's part of one for sale on Timeline for £400+. St James' has one for £15k.
There are also Pewter replicas.
What you have should be:-
Raven Penny, c20mm, c1.3g, c939-941, +AN.LAF CVNVNGS. Raven with wings displayed, hd. l./+, +ADELFERD MINETR, Aethelferd.
Struck at York.
I'd start by getting someone to do a silver test on the coin.
The Doc:
Very interesting coin if genuine.
But what made you purchase an apparently very rare coin if you knew nothing about it?
As already said by probono, this coin does not appear to match the extant known examples.
The reverse appears to have the legend + DENEILD MONE or something similar.
If correct, DENEILD would be the name of the moneyer. The coin has nothing to do with London.
There was a moneyer named Deinolt who struck the St Eadmund memorial coinage some 30-40 years earlier, which seems to be the closest I can find.
I would suggest submitting the coin to the Fitzwilliam Museum for an opinion.
probono:
I know that at Jorvik you can strike some pennies - the reverse strike on this one seems almost as if it has been struck multiple times - certanily the example I have was struck more than once...... (note that mine is a different type of viking coin)
Pablo:
I'm on my holiday at the moment and I'm unable to send that coin to museum for verification, but I will do that when I'm back. I found few examples on google but not with deneild moneyer
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