An introduction to the study of ancient and modern coins (1848)
Akerman, John Yonge, 1806-1873 · London, J. R. Smith · leaf 130
Many of tlie coins of Aelfred, found with thelarge hoard at Cuerdale in Lancashire a shorttime since, have the portrait with a monogramon the reverse, as in this example: — … which, instead of the name ALFRED, as usualaround that bust, has the word HERIBERT.A writer in the Numismatic Chronicle * considersthis to be a penny of Heriberht, a Saxon alder-man, slain in Lincolnshire, A. D. 838; but thisattribution is liable to grave objections; andwe must not forget the coins…
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