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duminică, 16 februarie 2020
Despre o monedă unică anglo-saxonă descoperită în Marea Britanie - 16.02.2020
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A Silver penny of Ludica, a virtually unknown Saxon king of Mercia has been discovered by Andy Hall, while metal detecting in Wiltshire. Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists will offer the coin in a sale of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10am at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. It is estimated to fetch £10,000-15,000.
The coin has on the obverse a diademed bust of Ludica facing right with the legend LUDICA REX MER, while the reverse features the inscription LUN/DONIA/CIVIT in three lines. Ludica reigned for just over a year in 826-7 AD.
Found at Coombe Bissett, in Wiltshire in January 2016 during a one off organised visit on farmland, the coin was buried 3-4 inches deep in a rotted down stubble field using an XP Deus metal detector. When found it was in a ball of thick mud. Andy, who is now 55 years-old and had been detecting for two years when he found the coin, saw that it was a Saxon Silver penny and took it home before carefully removing the mud. After researching online, he sent details to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge where new discoveries of early Medieval coins are registered.
Initially the coins authenticity was questioned because it was unique and so historically significant. Andy then spent the next three years having the coin examined by experts and then paid for metallurgical analysis before it was declared genuine. Andy says it became his mission to have the historical importance of the coin recorded.
It has now been published in the British Numismatic Journal 2019 and confirmed as an important addition to our understanding of the status of London in the Mercian Kingdom.
As Nigel Mills, Antiquities Expert at Dix Noonan Webb, explains “Ludica is first recorded as an Ealdorman in 824 AD under the Mercian king Beornwulf. An Ealdorman was a title of high status comprising administrator, judge and military commander with authority independent of the King. Beornwulf was defeated by the Wessex king Ecgberht at the battle of Ellandun in 825 AD and it was believed that he then took control of South Eastern England. This coin shows that Mercia still retained London or Lundenwic as it was called in 826 AD and that it did not fall under Ecgberhts control until after Ludica was killed fighting the East Angles in 827 AD.”
He continues: “The coin has a right facing bust of unique style compared to the other existing nine specimens of Ludica, and has the remarkable reverse inscription of LUNDONIA CIVIT (City of London). All the other examples have just the moneyers name and are believed to have been struck in East Anglia.”
Source: Dix Noonan Webb [February 02, 2020]
Sursa: https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/unique-saxon-coin-that-has-rewritten.html
A Silver penny of Ludica, a virtually unknown Saxon king of Mercia has been discovered by Andy Hall, while metal detecting in Wiltshire. Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists will offer the coin in a sale of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10am at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. It is estimated to fetch £10,000-15,000.
The coin has on the obverse a diademed bust of Ludica facing right with the legend LUDICA REX MER, while the reverse
features the inscription LUN/DONIA/CIVIT in three lines. Ludica reigned for just over a year in 826-7 AD
[Credit: Dix Noonan Webb]
features the inscription LUN/DONIA/CIVIT in three lines. Ludica reigned for just over a year in 826-7 AD
[Credit: Dix Noonan Webb]
Found at Coombe Bissett, in Wiltshire in January 2016 during a one off organised visit on farmland, the coin was buried 3-4 inches deep in a rotted down stubble field using an XP Deus metal detector. When found it was in a ball of thick mud. Andy, who is now 55 years-old and had been detecting for two years when he found the coin, saw that it was a Saxon Silver penny and took it home before carefully removing the mud. After researching online, he sent details to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge where new discoveries of early Medieval coins are registered.
Initially the coins authenticity was questioned because it was unique and so historically significant. Andy then spent the next three years having the coin examined by experts and then paid for metallurgical analysis before it was declared genuine. Andy says it became his mission to have the historical importance of the coin recorded.
It has now been published in the British Numismatic Journal 2019 and confirmed as an important addition to our understanding of the status of London in the Mercian Kingdom.
As Nigel Mills, Antiquities Expert at Dix Noonan Webb, explains “Ludica is first recorded as an Ealdorman in 824 AD under the Mercian king Beornwulf. An Ealdorman was a title of high status comprising administrator, judge and military commander with authority independent of the King. Beornwulf was defeated by the Wessex king Ecgberht at the battle of Ellandun in 825 AD and it was believed that he then took control of South Eastern England. This coin shows that Mercia still retained London or Lundenwic as it was called in 826 AD and that it did not fall under Ecgberhts control until after Ludica was killed fighting the East Angles in 827 AD.”
He continues: “The coin has a right facing bust of unique style compared to the other existing nine specimens of Ludica, and has the remarkable reverse inscription of LUNDONIA CIVIT (City of London). All the other examples have just the moneyers name and are believed to have been struck in East Anglia.”
Source: Dix Noonan Webb [February 02, 2020]
Sursa: https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/unique-saxon-coin-that-has-rewritten.html
duminică, 6 ianuarie 2019
Despre un tezaur anglo-saxon de peste 5.000 monede din argint valorând peste 1 milion de £ care a fost descoperit în Marea Britanie - 06.01.2019
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A hoard of Medieval coins worth more than £1 MILLION has been discovered buried in a bucket in a farmer’s field.
Amateur treasure hunters armed with metal detectors uncovered the rare Anglo Saxon coinsnear Aylesbury, Bucks., during a Christmas dig.
The stunning find is one of the most significant in Britain in recent years, say specialists.
Over 100 individuals turned out to take part in the festive hunt and they were stunned to find the collection of more than 5,000 silver coins, thought to be over 1,000 years old.
The perfectly preserved pieces, which feature the faces of Anglo Saxon kings, were in a lead bucket which was buried 2 feet underground.
The extremely rare coins could be worth more than £1 million and Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club leader Pete Welch said the find was “very significant”.
Pete, 56, said: “They are like mirrors, no scratching, and buried really carefully in a lead container, deep down.
“It looks like only 2 people have handled these coins. The person who made them and the person who buried them.
“Metal detecting is a bit random however most farms have a bit of history so you have a chance of finding something.
“I think this was a case of you either move to the right or move to the left and on this case our member moved the right way.
“I’m just hoping that these coins will end up in a museum for the public to see. I would not want to see them go to a private collector.”
The discovery of a total of 5,251 coins was made amid the annual dig on December 21 on rural farmland the group had visited before.
After they were discovered by archaeologist Ros Tyrrell was called to help excavate them.
The coins are in “superb condition” and demonstrate the faces of some of the kings of England dating back 1,000 years.
They include coins from the reigns of Ethelred the Unready (978-1016 AD) and Canute, or Cnut (1016-1035 AD).
Mr Welch trusts that hoard is equal in importance to the Staffordshire Hoard of gold and garnets found by a metal detectorist in 2009.
He added: “We don’t know how many variations of the coins there are and when we do we will know how significant the find is.
“This would have been a huge amount of money in its day. One coin alone would have been a lot back then.
“Everyone dreams of a pot of gold. The reality is you spend most of your time digging up bits of junk
“This is the first of its kind since I have been running the club, which is 23 years.”
A hoard of Medieval coins worth more than £1 MILLION has been discovered buried in a bucket in a farmer’s field.
Amateur treasure hunters armed with metal detectors uncovered the rare Anglo Saxon coinsnear Aylesbury, Bucks., during a Christmas dig.
The stunning find is one of the most significant in Britain in recent years, say specialists.
Over 100 individuals turned out to take part in the festive hunt and they were stunned to find the collection of more than 5,000 silver coins, thought to be over 1,000 years old.
The perfectly preserved pieces, which feature the faces of Anglo Saxon kings, were in a lead bucket which was buried 2 feet underground.
The extremely rare coins could be worth more than £1 million and Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club leader Pete Welch said the find was “very significant”.
Pete, 56, said: “They are like mirrors, no scratching, and buried really carefully in a lead container, deep down.
“It looks like only 2 people have handled these coins. The person who made them and the person who buried them.
“Metal detecting is a bit random however most farms have a bit of history so you have a chance of finding something.
“I think this was a case of you either move to the right or move to the left and on this case our member moved the right way.
“I’m just hoping that these coins will end up in a museum for the public to see. I would not want to see them go to a private collector.”
The discovery of a total of 5,251 coins was made amid the annual dig on December 21 on rural farmland the group had visited before.
After they were discovered by archaeologist Ros Tyrrell was called to help excavate them.
The coins are in “superb condition” and demonstrate the faces of some of the kings of England dating back 1,000 years.
They include coins from the reigns of Ethelred the Unready (978-1016 AD) and Canute, or Cnut (1016-1035 AD).
Mr Welch trusts that hoard is equal in importance to the Staffordshire Hoard of gold and garnets found by a metal detectorist in 2009.
He added: “We don’t know how many variations of the coins there are and when we do we will know how significant the find is.
“This would have been a huge amount of money in its day. One coin alone would have been a lot back then.
“Everyone dreams of a pot of gold. The reality is you spend most of your time digging up bits of junk
“This is the first of its kind since I have been running the club, which is 23 years.”
Members of the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club work to uncover an inredible hoard of silver Anglo Saxon coins worth more than £1 million
A Bucks County Museum spokesman stated: “This is one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain.
“When the coins have been properly identified and dated, we may be able to guess at why such a great treasure was covered.”
He added that as the coins are valuable metal over 300 years old they fall within the remit of the Treasure Act.
They will now be taken to the British Museum for preservation and identification before a coroner will decide whether they are legally treasure.
A museum will then be able to bid for the coins with the money from the sale being split between the land owner and the individual who made the discovery.
“When the coins have been properly identified and dated, we may be able to guess at why such a great treasure was covered.”
He added that as the coins are valuable metal over 300 years old they fall within the remit of the Treasure Act.
They will now be taken to the British Museum for preservation and identification before a coroner will decide whether they are legally treasure.
A museum will then be able to bid for the coins with the money from the sale being split between the land owner and the individual who made the discovery.
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