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Examples of coins for the individual Anglo-Saxon kingdoms may be viewed by clicking on any of the coin icons below; there is also a section for the coins of England following the unification by Aethelstan in 927 AD.

                      

                 

 

Click here for BNJ General References to Anglo-Saxon Coins

 

Williams,     ‘Why are there no coins in the Staffordshire hoard??’, 84 (2014), 39-51.
Williams,   ‘Anglo-Saxon Gold Coinage. Part 1: The Transition from Roman to Anglo-Saxon coinage’, 80 (2010), 51-75
M. Metcalf,   ‘Betwixt Sceattas and Offa's Pence. Mint-attributions and the chronology of a recession, 79 (2009), 1-33
Elina Screen,   ‘Anglo-Saxon law and numismatics: A reassessment in the light of Patrick Wormald's the Making of English Law, 77 (2007), 150-72
C. S. S. Lyon,   ‘Anglo-Saxon Numismatics’, 73 (2003), 58-75, pls
E. Blunt (Lord Stewartby ed.),   ‘Four Tenth-Century Notes: Unfinished Work of C. E. Blunt’, 64 (1994), 33-40, pl.
M. Metcalf,   ‘A plate of Anglo-Saxon coins found at Reculver, Kent in the eighteenth century’, 58 (1988), 126-29
M. Metcalf,   ‘Were Earldormen Exercising Independent Control over the Coinage in Mid Tenth Century England?’, 57 (1987), 24-33
Ian Stewart,   'A Numeration of Late Anglo-Saxon Coin Types’, 45 (1975), 12-18
C. S. S. Lyon,   ‘Historical problems of Anglo-Saxon coinage, (1)’, 36 (1967), 215-21
-                               - (2) The ninth century: Offa to Alfred, 37 (1968), 216-83, 2 pls.
-                               - (3) Denominations and weights, 38 (1969), 204-22
-                               - (4) The Viking Age’, 39 (1970), 193-204, pl.
E. Blunt et al.,   ‘The coinage of Southern England, 796-840’, 32 (1963), 1-74, 10 pls.
E. Blunt,   ‘Two Anglo-Saxon notes: [2] Tenth-century half-pennies and C. Roach Smith’s plate of coins found in London’, 31 (1962), 44-48, pl.
H. M. Dolley,   ‘Contemporary forgeries of late Saxon pence’, 28 (1955-57), 185-89, pl.
Peter Seaby,   ‘The sequence of Anglo-Saxon coin types, 1030-50’, 28 (1955-57), 111-46, 2 pls.
A. Parsons,   ‘Assays and imitations, foreign and native, of the late Saxon period, A.D. 975-1066’, 17 (1923-24), 61-97
A. Parsons,   ‘Remarks on hoards of late Anglo-Saxon coins’, 16 (1921-22), 33-57, 2 pls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Click here for BNJ articles on Collections of Anglo-Saxon Coins

 

M. Archibald,   ‘Cotton's Anglo-Saxon coins in the light of the Periesc inventory of 1606’, 76 (2006), 171-203, 2  pls.
Michael Dolley,   ‘The Hiberno-Norse Coins in Gotlands Fornsal, Visby’, 48 (1978), 20-34. [Appendix: The Anglo-Saxon coins ... , pp. 28-34]
E. Pagan,   ‘Robert Austen and the Bank of England Collection’, 39 (1970), 12-18
R. I. Page,   ‘Ralph Thoresbury's runic coins’, 34 (1965), 28-31
H. E. Pagan and N. G. Rhodes,       ‘Anglo-Saxon coins in the Westminster School collection’, 31 (1962), 11-26, pl.
C. E. Blunt [and] R. H. M. Dolley,   ‘Coins at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire’, 30 (1960-61), 360-61, pl.
C. E. Blunt and R. H. M. Dolley,   'The Anglo-Saxon coins in the Vatican library’, 28 (1955-57), 449-58, pl.
R. H. M. Dolley and J. S. Strudwick,   ‘The provenances of the Anglo-Saxon coins recorded in the tow volumes of the British Museum Catalogue’, 28 (1955-57), 26-59
R. H. M. Dolley and J. S. Strudwick,    ‘An early seventeenth-century collection of Anglo-Saxon coins’,  27 (1952-54), 302-12 

Other References: 

  • Blackburn, M.A.S. (1999). "Coinage". The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 113–116.
  • Naismith, Rory (2011). Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms, 757–865. Cambridge University Press.
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