An introduction to the study of ancient and modern coins (1848)
Akerman, John Yonge, 1806-1873 · London, J. R. Smith · leaf 132
* Ruding, pl.v. figs. 1. 2. ANGLO-SAXON COINAGE. 119 There was also a type of Alfred, the floridornaments of which seem to have been suggestedby the devices of one of the coins of OfFa. … The pennies of Eadweard the Elder are in-teresting, though of rude execution. There aremany varieties. Some have the representation ofa building; others, a flower in a compartment ofthe reverse; and the hand of Providence, a typederived from the Byzantine artists, appears on athird variety. But two…
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