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Description: | A slightly worn and bent, possibly irregular 11th-century silver late early-medieval penny of Edward the Confessor, 'Pyramids' type, struck by the moneyer Spracling probably at Winchester mint (c. 1065 - c. 1066 AD; North 831).Two small points of copper-alloy corrosion product on the obverse suggest that this coin might be a plated copy; they may simply be accretions.Although Spracling minted at London as well as Winchester (North 1994, 184, 186), only Winchester coins seem to have sufficiently elongated renderings of the moneyer's name to prevent space for the mint name. The findspot just outside Winchester is also suggestive. For coins struck by the moneyer Spracling at Winchester see Biddle ed. (2012, 372-373; refs. 1855-1861; Plate 68), although none of those illustrated would appear to be identical.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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