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found this coin yesturday in sunny south wales ::) ::)edward the confessor, and its my first ever piece of saxon anymore info on it would be welcom cheers

Stunning hammerd.....
And south Wales as well! Please get it recorded :)

cheers nobby off to museum asap m8

WOW !!!!!!!   is all I can say. Beautiful coin and such good condition.  It gives us all hope. ;)

Val

So hens do have teeth ;D What a find and in South Wales too, Mike found one years ago but I don't personally know of any others.
Way above my pay grade to id, I've never needed to study them :'(...only drool.
One oddity though is that the word PACX around the centre is reversed  ??? which seems a strange mistake to make.
Keep us informed as to what the official id is ;)

heres mine i found in N Wales :)

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cheers all heres a write up i found regarding the word pxca in centre not sure if it the same :) :)                     Edward the Confessor (1042-66), PACX type Penny (1042-4), Swota of Bedford Mint, diademed bust left with sceptre to edge of coin, legend commences at top, +EDPA D RECX rev. voided long cross with crescent terminals, annulet centre, letters P X C A in angles in wrong order, the A also over X, +SPOT ON.N BEDEF 0.82g. (BMC type IV; N.813; S.1171; See BNJ 2011 page 106, this coin listed). Dark tone, slightly perforated through coin, otherwise a bold very fine and the only known specimen with the P+CA reverse according to recent BNJ article, ex Baldwin Summer fixed Price List 2011.             

WOW! Well it looks like you have a unique coin :o as yours doesn't look like Bedford ???

Jay you're just greedy ;D You had one at Bedford too didn't you?

Fantastic coin hammerd

Good pictures of yours Jason, I remember that day well.

stunning coin well searched  ;)

Top draw coin  fantastic condition as well. Congrats on the find  ;)

Well done Hammered, thats a cracking coin

Wow!!! Fabulous coin, find of a lifetime that and in great condition.

yes chef i did and my mate scotty had 2 in the same 50 ft area (possible hoard) ,think the area has been revisited but havent seen any come up YET!

it's not Bedford mint , Taf, but I'm struggling to work out what it does actually say (I can read COEN on the reverse, but not much beyond that) - Saxon hammered isn't my forte :(

I'm definitely detecting in the wrong part of South Wales :) Mike already had the saxon on the  farm! - it was an Aethlered penny (can't remember the mint, but it is in Anglo-Saxon coin finds by Metcalf).

Wasn't there a hoard of anglo-saxon - early norman pennies found fairly recently in Abergavenny?

ah  I remember it well , aethelred penny lydford mint moneyer was bruna  :) :) :)

you'll have to see if you can get a photo from Besley of it :)

wicked find ...what part of s.wales?

Top quality coin mate, well done ;) ;)

Well found - a fascinating coin.

The reverse legend is completely blundered, which is why a mint or moneyer cannot be identified.

But - there is a parallel already known, on the Early Medieval Corpus, as shown below, and the findspot for that one was the Vale of Glamorgan. Links for the EMC don't work, so I've done screen grabs of the coin on the EMC.

If you can get this coin to Ed Besly for an opinion I'm sure he will be very interested.

thats a top find for s.wales my friend..wwoowww !!

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Cheers doc went down museum yesturday but he works 3 day week so sent him email and pics will pass it on to them asap

That's almost the spit of the new coin - very interesting!

An absolutely beautiful coin. Well done.

stunning find whatever part of the country it came from, bonus its from South Wales.
Congratulations buddy

Cor !. what will you find next,lovely coin in ex condition. :) :)

Beautiful coins...Its a pity they are so rare to find, imo they knock socks off most hammered coins. thanks for posting people :)

Hers a write up I had of the searcher about the coin... The general style of the coin is good. However, it displays a number of anomalies. Firstly, the king's name on the obverse reads EDPArDI; second, PACX in the angles of the reverse reads in the wrong direction;third, the reverse legend reads GIDI COE NEE N (the last letter followed by two square Cs or a fancy cross) and this doesn't make sense in any direction. I'm now definitely of the opinion that this is a contemporary imitation; it is probably but not necessarily Scandinavian, as there is a chance that it could have been made somewhere in Europe. Copies are known of PACX type pennies of Edward the Confessor but I haven't traced one that matches your coin. It's a pity it has been pierced but it is still a nice looking coin. And, of course, it is a great rare find

Top find! well done,  8)