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- A 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...
- 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...
- Silver Northumbrian sceatta of Alchred...
- 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;...
- Silver sceatta of Eadberht...
- commonly accepted coin type in inter-regional trade. For instance, the silver sceattas were a po****r type of coin in England, the Netherlands and the Frisian...
- succeeded by Antenor. Nemfidius issued coins, some of which have reached us. Sceattas in England and on the continent: the Seventh Oxford Symposium on Coinage...
- were the home to major mints in this period, primarily producing silver sceattas. This suggests that from the seventh century onward, kings in Kent were...