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Early Medieval Penny of Aethelstan
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Sussex Archaeological Society, Stephanie Smith, 2012-03-15 16:58:48
Title
Early Medieval Penny of Aethelstan
Description
English: An incomplete silver Early Medieval circumscription cross penny of Aethelstan (924-939 AD). The letters in the legends on both the obverse and reverse are oriented in a combination of retrograde, backwards and right-side-up and right-side-up (see below).

Obverse: EDELSTA[...]

Reverse: [...]RTALVII[...]

For obverse: EDEL(retrograde), S(backwards), TA (right-side-up)

For reverse: R(retrograde), TA(right-side-up), L (right-side-up, but backwards), A I I (retrograde)
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 924 and 939
Accession number
FindID: 493476
Old ref: SUSS-E27A67
Filename: SUSS-E27A67EarlyMedPennyAethelstan.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/374349
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/374349/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/493476
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