- The
styca (pronounced [ˈstykɑ]; pl.
stycas) was a
small coin
minted in pre-Viking Northumbria,
originally in base
silver and
subsequently in a
copper alloy...
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copper alloy,
these coins are
commonly known as
stycas, but the term is an
antiquarian invention.
Stycas remains in use
throughout the
kingdom until at...
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Copper alloy of
styca of King Osberht...
- few
years later, but no
further details are
known of his murder. The new
styca coinage,
small br****
coins containing very
little silver and much zinc,...
- Eanred's
reign sees the
appearance of the
styca, a new
style of
small coin
which replaced the
earlier sceat.
These stycas were of low
silver content,
later coins...
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Silver styca of Aethelred...
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Copper alloy of
styca of King Raedwulf...
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called Stycas.
Reprinted from the Archaeologia, Vol. XXV".
Archaeologia Aeliana. 3. Lyon, C S (1955). "A
REAPPRAISAL OF THE
SCEATTA AND
STYCA COINAGE...
- word broþer is
written with a
ligatured ᛖ and ᚱ (er) on some
Northumbrian stycas The
Latin word meus is
written as mæus with a
ligatured ᛗ and ᚫ (mæ) on...
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vacant for
eight years. Like
previous archbishops of York,
Wulfhere issued styca coins;
Wulfred was his moneyer. Fryde, et al.
Handbook of
British Chronology...
