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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...
- ('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...
- 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...
- brother, Archbishop Ecgbert of York. These coins were primarily small silver sceattas, more suitable to small, everyday transactions than larger gold Frankish...
- Frisian sceattas from approximately 710 to 735...
- 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...
- kingdom included west Kent. During this period, Es**** kings issued their own sceattas (coins), perhaps as an ****ertion of their own independence. However, by...
- 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;...
- Frisian sceattas c.710–735...
- that the Mercians undertook to obey. At the start of the 8th century, sceattas were the primary circulating coinage. These were small silver pennies,...