Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 60
, Fig-ure 6, and Plate XXVIL, Figure 1). The Saxon skeattce were the first purely English coins in circu-lation of which we have any knowledge. Their value is doubt-ful, but they would seem to have been worth not far from a penny.In the laws of Athelstan it is said that 30,000 of them are spokenof…
Numismatics · Medals · Seals (Numismatics)
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