Our Saxon Coin Finds

I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all of the Weekend Wanderers members who have given me permission to display their finds on this web page.

This page was last updated 2 September  2007

WWDC member Paul Banks found the coin shown below and said ..........  

The excellent Saxon Sceat shown below was found on a recent Weekend Wanderers dig in Bucks by Stuart Bergman

Lee Smeaton was the finder of the lovely  Silver Sceat shown below on a recent Hampshire dig, the coin looks gold instead of silver due to the light source used in the photo

  Lee tells me that this coin was found with his Goldmax power - complete with bend in the shaft where he ran it over a couple of weeks ago, the coin was found when checking the mud scraped off his shovel!!!!

Many thanks to James Petts for sending me the pictures below of his Saxon penny found on our 2003 Christmas dig.

The pictures show the coin before and after careful cleaning.

Derek Critoph found the Sceat shown below on a recent WWDC dig in Buckinghamshire

The excellent Saxon Sceat shown below was found on a recent Weekend Wanderers dig by James Petts.

Thanks to Wanderers member Tim Hurst for the picture below showing a very nice Saxon he found on a recent club dig.

The coin has been identified as an Eadgar (957 - 75) pre reform type (c972) circumscription cross BMCiii (North 748), obverse (double struck) +EADGAR REX ANGLO rev. ELFISH O WINT  (WINCHESTER)

WWDC member Peter Brown found the coin pictured below recently. He believes it to be an early Anglo-Saxon silver sceatta.

Can you positively ID this coin.

Many thanks to Steven Fenton for the excellent picture below which shows a  Saxon sceat.  Steven found this coin in The River Thames in Middlesex, it was  found with a Viking 5 when Steven had only been detecting for 2 hours, it was his first ever try at detecting, What a first find !!!!

The excellent Saxon Sceat shown below was found on a recent Weekend Wanderers dig by James Petts

The Sceat shown below was kindly sent in by its finder John Raeburn.

John included a 1p piece in the picture to give you an idea of the size of this coin.  The sceat which  John  found two years ago on a Wanderers dig  is still the best one I have seen to date. The Sceat dates between 710 and 760 AD (Seabys 811).

Many thanks to Colin for sending me the pictures below of his recent find along with the information below.

   The coin is of the Helmet Type Cnut Penny and was struck at the Lincoln mint around 1016 AD.  The reverse reads +PULBARN MO LINC.  Wulbarn appears to be a version of Wulfbeorn, a known moneyer for this reign.  There are other versions of spelling but Wulbarn (PVLBARN) seems to be one of the rarest.  There are two examples with this spelling in the Royal Collection, Copenhagen, and there was another example in the H. R. Mossop collection prior to its dispersal.  This coin may well be only the second recorded example from this pair of dies.  The coin looks as if it is in near VF condition.

Neil Fazackerley sent me the scan below of his latest Saxon find, this time a coin of Edward the confessor.

Well done and thanks Neil.

The two coins pictured below were found by WWDC member Neil on one of our weekend digs.

Neil tells me that both of the coins are late Anglo Saxon and of King Aethelred 2nd ( The Unready ) and are dated from 978 - 1016. 2 wonderful finds, well done Neil and thanks for sharing them with us.

We had a particularly good weekend  for finds this weekend and Thank You to all the  members who have permitted me to show a few of their finds below.

The pictures  above show the obverse and reverse of a Saxon from the reign of Eadred 946 - 955 AD

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