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sceat or
sceatta (/ʃæt/ SHAT; Old English:
sceatt [ʃæɑt], pl.
sceattas) was a small,
thick silver coin
minted in England, Frisia, and
Jutland during...
- brother,
Archbishop Ecgbert of York.
These coins were
primarily small silver sceattas, more
suitable to small,
everyday transactions than
larger gold Frankish...
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contemporaries as pæningas or denarii,
though now
often referred to as
sceattas by numismatists. Broader,
thinner pennies inscribed with the name of the...
- a "minor
though recurring theme" in the
secondary phase of Anglo-Saxon
sceatta production (c. 710–760). It is
found in
similar artwork on
early Christian...
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Silver sceatta of Eadberht...
- II
coins (some 30 items), 7th century;
reading pada Kent III, IV
silver sceattas, c. 600;
reading æpa and epa
Suffolk gold
shillings (three items), c. 660;...
-
problem of the
value and
scarcity of the currency. The
miscellaneous silver sceattas minted in
Frisia and Anglo-Saxon
England after around 680 were probably...
- thousand", and some
specify thirty thousand pounds. If the
pounds are
equal to
sceattas, then this
amount is the
equal of a king's weregild—that is, the legal...
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Silver Northumbrian sceatta of Alchred...
- that the
Mercians undertook to obey. At the
start of the 8th century,
sceattas were the
primary circulating coinage.
These were
small silver pennies,...
