- 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...
- ('primary')
sceattas of
series A, B and C were
largely confined to Kent and the
Thames Estuary,
though the
emergence of the 'secondary'
sceattas (probably...
- brother,
Archbishop Ecgbert of York.
These coins were
primarily small silver sceattas, more
suitable to small,
everyday transactions than
larger gold Frankish...
- 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...
-
included west Kent.
During this period, Es****
kings were
issuing their own
sceattas (coins),
perhaps as an ****ertion of
their own independence. However, by...
-
Frisian sceattas c.710–735...
- 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...
- that the
Mercians undertook to obey. At the
start of the 8th century,
sceattas were the
primary circulating coinage.
These were
small silver pennies,...
- 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...
