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Volume CXIII
Number 5
Contents
A Few Unusual Coins of the Anarchy
M. Faintich, Ph.D
A New Silver Ceremonial Coin of
Constans II (A.D. 641-668) S. Bendall
Portraits of Greek Coinage R. J. Eaglen
Two Henry I Type XV Notes D. A. Walker
The Uncharitable Monopolizer D. W. Dykes
Freya Woolf M. Sharp
A Comment on the Coinage of John Comnenus-Ducas
(1237-1244) in the Light of a New Discovery
S. Bendall
Two Misstruck Henry I Pennies
P. P. Gaspar and M. Lessen
A Token of the London Baker whose Oven Sparked
the Great Fire R. H. Thompson
Book Reviews
B.A.N.S. Weekend (2-4 September 2005)
I.A.P.N. Book Prize for 2005
An Interesting and Important Self-Portrait That
Recently Passed Through Our Hands
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Figure 1
Obverse: [+...]; Reverse: AE.. WA.. ON IVEL
The irregular and unique coin shown in figure 1 is most likely
a baronial issue, with a crude bust left and cross on the obverse,
and a cross moline reverse. It is of good silver, but extremely light,
weighing only 0.63g. This coin is listed in North (see N.884,
footnote 414). A partial reverse legend suggests that the coin may
have been struck at Ilchester. North states only ON IVEL in his
footnote, but close inspection suggests additional partial letters as
shown in the caption.
Figure 2
Pelleted annulet on sceptre
Perhaps this penny (figure 2) was struck during the same
period as other coins bearing a pelleted annulet. Some of the
phase B pennies of David of Scotland have a crescent or annulet
enclosing a pellet in each quadrant of the reverse cross, and these
coins are thought to have been struck in the middle or late
1140s. An extremely rare Watford variety of Stephen has an
annulet on the kings shoulder, and the lis in the reverse
quadrants are replaced with annulets enclosing pellets.
Figure 3
Obverse: + STIE[FNE]; Reverse: +PVL[NOD: ON:] NOh:
The cut half penny shown in figure 3 was struck by Wulnod in
Northampton, and is from the same dies as another cut half
penny listed in the Fitzwilliam Museum Early Medieval Corpus
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Figure 4
Composite Image
Figure 5
Henry of Anjou?
Upon Matilda's arrival at Bristol in 1139, pennies were struck
in her name, and beginning in 1142, in the name of her son,
Henry of Anjou, who would later become Henry II of England.
The penny in figure 5 was struck by the moneyer Jordan
(IORDAN), and features a bust right with sceptre and a cross
in front of the sceptre. The most probable obverse legend is
H: ENRICVS. +, which would attribute this penny to Henry of
Anjou, but Prince Henry of Scotland is also a possibility. The
moneyer IORDAN is unknown for both Prince Henry and Henry
of Anjou, and is only known as a moneyer from the mints at
Bristol (for Matilda) and Norwich (for Stephen) for this type of
coin. The mint name is difficult to read, but most probable
reverse legends are IORDANVS ON MELMS.. (Malmesbury) or
IORDANVS ON WELLIG.. (or WELIG.. or VELIG.. - Wallingford).
The relationship to either mint may be problematic for a coin of
Prince Henry. However, coins were struck for Henry of Anjou at
Malmesbury, and at Wallingford, a baronial coin of Brian Fitz
Count was struck, demonstrating limited activity during the
period.
Figure 6
Trefoil of Annulets
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The coin published here was recently brought to the writers
attention.
Obverse dNCONSTAN-TINUSPPAV. Constans with long beard,
standing wearing crown and chlamys, holding globus
cruciger in right hand, left hand across waist1.
Reverse Cross potent on three steps flanked by palm branches.
Wt. 1.90 gm.; Diam. 18 mm.
According to Hahn, the coinage of Constans which depicts
him alone and with a long beard dates to the period 651/2 - 654.
The hexagrams of this period (MIB 147/8; DO 52/3; S. 993/4)
are amongst the rarest in the whole series, rarer possibly even
than those of Justinian II and later rulers. However, there is
already a comparable Ceremonial silver coin for these rare
hexagrams of Constans (MIB 139; S. 986A). This new coin is
unusual in two respects - firstly, the standing figure of the
emperor but, in some ways more important, the cross on the
reverse is a simple cross potent resting on three steps, omitting the
usual globe.
It seems unlikely that this coin is a trial piece. It has every sign
of being a regular issue struck between 651 and 654. The
hexagrams of this period are extremely rare and it would be
interesting to know if a coin of this denomination with this
obverse will appear in due course.
Footnote.
1. At first the writer wondered whether the emperor was holding an akakia
or a short sword across his body with his left hand but this seems unlikely.
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Obverse
Reverse
Footnotes.
1. Barclay V. Head, Historia Numorum (Oxford, 1911), p.718.
2. G.Shipley, A History of Samos, 800 - 188BC (Oxford, 1987), pp.41-42. N.
G. L. Hammond, A History of Greece to 322 BC, 3rd edition, (Oxford,
1986), pp.121, 660, dates the Samian foundation as probably in the
sixth century BC.
3. Strabo, Geographia, 14.5.3.
4. Head, Historia Numorum, p.718. The Persian standard was of a double
siglos of 11.0g (C. M. Kraay and Max Hirmer, Greek Coins (New York),
p.17.
5. David R. Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, II (London, 1979), pp.502-03.
6. George C. Brauer, The Kalpe an Agonistic Reference on several Greek
Coins?, SAN 6, no. 1 (fall 1974), pp.6-7.
7. H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, Greek-English Lexicon, 9th edition with a
revised Supplement (Oxford, 1996), p.870.
8. Arthur J. Evans, The Horsemen of Tarentum, NC (1889), pp.1-228.
9. Ibid., Plates II. 7, III. 9 and 10.
10. Ibid., Plate VII. 10.
11. Ibid., Plate VII. 9.
12. Ibid., Plate II. 6.
13. Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, pp.502-03.
14. Colin M. Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (London, 1976), p.279.
The word is not listed in the Greek-English Lexicon and the further
suggestion, that the obverse - showing a race-horse () is also
punning, stretches credibility.
15. These coins were until recently attributed to Aigai (see, for example,
Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek Coins, p.141) but are now considered as
tribal issues from Bisaltia or Mygdonia, further to the east (see, for
example, C. Lorber, The Goats of Aigai, in pour Denyse: Divertissements
Numismatiques, edited by S. M. Hurter and C. Arnold Biucci (Bern,
2000), pp.113-135).
16. Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, I (London, 1978), 1494, p.151.
17. Ibid., p.158.
18. Peter Green, Ancient Greece, a Concise History, (London, 1973), p.20.
19. A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Civilisation, (London, 1966), p.203.
20. C. M. Bowra, The Greek Experience, (London, 1957), p.5.
21. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower and Anthony
Spawforth, revised 3rd edition (Oxford, 2003), p.603; Dictionary of
Ancient Greek Civilisation, p.203.
22. Bowra, The Greek Experience, p.4; Dictionary of Ancient Greek Civilisation,
p.203.
23. Oxford Classical Dictionary, p.981.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., p.250.
26. Ibid., p.497.
27. Ibid., p.1103.
28. Catherine Jones, Sex or Symbol? Erotic Images of Greece and Rome,
(London, 1989), pp.78, 82.
29. Oxford Classical Dictionary, p.322.
30. Greek-English Lexicon, p.1192.
31. Bowra, The Greek Experience, p.4.
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reverses differ and the pieces have all the characteristics of being
trials struck prior to the completion of the reverse die for D&H:
239. The Davis catalogue, unsurprisingly, records its example of
D&H: 241 (lot 637) as not being stuck in a collar.
The reverse of D&H: 241 (Figure 2) lacks the radiation under
WELL DONE in D&H: 239, the hand supporting the hat and the
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8. In 1797 Grafton and Reddell published the first Birmingham Guide Book
or Brief History of Birmingham and, as Wilkes, Grafton and Reddell,
began the Birmingham Commercial Herald and Advertiser in January 1804.
A later view (1811) of their shop premises in High Street they also had
a paper warehouse in New Street - appears in a topographical drawing of
the Bull Ring by William Hollins.
9. Ariss Birmingham Gazette, 2 June 1800, quoted in John Alfred Langford,
A Century of Birmingham Life, II, p.100
10. By March 1801 prices had broken through the 180s. mark but thereafter
they gradually decreased as large grain imports succeeded in containing
the internal market. The wheat prices quoted are taken from the returns
published in the Gentlemans Magazine. They are monthly averages and
thus to an extent mask actual weekly market prices.
11. The country had been increasingly dependent on grain imports since the
1760s, as population growth had steadily eroded the capacity of the
domestic supply. They were not materially affected during the
Revolutionary War until the closure of the Baltic ports to British
commerce in November/December 1800 and then only for a short
period.
12. Quoted in Mancur Olson, The Economics of Wartime Shortage (Durham,
NC, 1963), p. 53.
13. Briefly, forestalling was the buying of food before it reached the public
market in order to enhance its price; regrating, the buying of goods in a
market in order to sell them in the same market at a higher price;
engrossing, the wholesale purchasing of growing crops to create a
monopoly and thus enable higher prices to be charged. See Donald Grove
Barnes, A History of the English Corn Laws from 1660-1846 (London,
1930), p. 2.
14. For example Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham and Birmingham.
Even for skilled workers, able to afford a wider range of foodstuffs, bread
took up a considerable proportion of their weekly budget and movements
in grain prices had important consequences for popular living standards.
Not unnaturally therefore these towns were focal points of food riots in
1800.
15. Sir Samuel Romilly, quoted in J Stevenson, Food Riots in England, 17921818 in R. Quinault and J. Stevenson (eds.), Popular Protest and Public
Order (London, 1974), p. 54.
16. The historical details that follow are taken from Langford, as in n. 9, II,
pp. 96-110.
17. A trial presided over by Lord Kenyon who famously congratulated the
jury on its verdict as almost the greatest benefit on your country that
was ever conferred by a jury. Quoted in Roger Wells, Wretched Faces,
Famine in Wartime England, 1793-1801 (Gloucester, 1988), p. 86. Wells
book is a valuable and thorough account of the countrys food riots in
1795-6 and 1800-1801 and their causes.
18. By such noted caricaturists as Isaac Cruikshank and Thomas
Rowlandson (see George, as in n. 4, pp. 624-26, nos. 9545-9547).
19. The only member of the government to oppose its laissez-faire attitude
was Lord Liverpool, the President of the Board of Trade and author of the
Treatise on the Coins of the Realm (Oxford, 1805).
20. Hancock was an essentially conservative character witness his
Sedition medalet of 1791 (D&H: Warwickshire 34; BHM: 360) as was
Kempson, in townsmens terms, and it would have been untypical of
them to have contemplated a rabble-rousing emblem.
21. The Uncharitable Monopolizer should not, however, be seen in the same
light as the gruesome and inflammatory print produced by one Purcell or
Pearsall, a Snow Hill print-seller, arrested for his part in fomenting the
Birmingham riots in September 1800 and confined in the towns
dungeon.
22. For the Birmingham riots of September 1800 see Langford, as in n. 9, II,
pp. 103-105 and Wells, as in n. 17, pp. 124-5.
Freya Woolf
It is with sadness that I report the recent death of Mrs. Freya
Woolf, widow of the late Nol Woolf, author of The Medallic Record
of the Jacobite Movement. Although always supportive of Nols
work, she was a numismatist in her own right and specialised in
the Parthian series, I well remember her entertaining and
informative talk entitled Parthian Shots, a title derived from the
prowess of the Parthian mounted bowmen. A Fellow of the Royal
Numismatic Society, a former member of the Worthing and
District Numismatic Society and a member of The 1745
Association, she attended a number of the weekend meetings and
made many friends in their course. She will, therefore, be much
missed in both numismatic and Jacobite circles.
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Figure 2
Apart from the brockages on these small coins, the writer
knows of none that occur on the larger scyphates of John C-Ds
Series I and II and this is surely due to the fact that on these larger
coins, or at least those of Series I, the upper obverse design was
struck by two blows of the die at an angle of about 25 degrees
from the vertical, sometimes with a single die but sometimes with
two different dies. This process can be seen in figure 2 and is
described in fuller detail in the article published by the writer and
David Sellwood in 1978 3 At this period the use of one obverse die
used twice or two dies used once each would certainly have made
it much more apparent if a flan had adhered to the upper die and,
if it did and was not noticed, a brockage should be produced on
only half the obverse of the coin only, that made by the first strike,
usually on the left side, a feature the writer has never observed. It
is unlikely that brockages were produced with the first flan
remaining on the lower die.
However, the series III scyphates of John C-D are so small that,
from an examination of these coins, it is obvious that they were
only struck with a single vertical blow of the obverse die and not
two angled blows. In addition, for their size, these small coins tend
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Figure 4
On the other hand the sheer number of Johns types in three
different sizes surely indicates that they can hardly have been
struck entirely within his short reign or even in his reign and that
of his brother Demetrius and recent discoveries indicate that
Johns coinage is more extensive than originally envisaged. In the
summer of 2003 the writer acquired yet another previously
unrecorded coin of John C-D (fig. 4), not a new type but a coin of
Series I of a type previously only known in Series II (DO 9) and
Series III (DO 21) 11, while in September of the same year he
attended the XIII International Numismatic Congress in Madrid
where there was given a paper regarding the late Byzantine coins
found in excavations in the citadel at Ochrid in the Republic of
Macedonia. These ongoing excavations have produced several
hitherto unpublished coins of John C-D, again not new types, but
other coins of Series I hitherto only recorded in Series II or III 12. It
is obvious that there is little point in reassessing John C-Ds
coinage until these prolific excavations have been completed and
the material published.
Footnotes.
1. S. Bendall and D. Sellwood, Mis-strikes from an Eastern Hoard of Folles,
Proceedings of the 8th International Numismatic Congress, New York
and Washington. Congress held in 1973 and Proceedings published
1975.
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2. It seems extremely unlikely that brockages were produced with the first
flan remaining on the lower die.
3. S. Bendall and D. Sellwood, The Method of Striking Scyphate Coins using
Two Obverse Dies, Numismatic Chronicle, vol. 138, 1978.
4. That the incuse impressions tend to be weak is certainly also due to the
fact that the coin adhering to the upper die was of copper and not the
harder iron or bronze of the actual die. There were 133 coins of 17 types
of Series III coins found at Turnovo of which possibly as many as 70%
were brockages since Dotchev was unable to describe the design of the
obverses of 10 types (68 coins) while of the 65 coins of the seven types
whose obverses he could describe, at least 50% or more will have been
brockages.
5. John C-D was only emperor between 1237 and 1242 when he was
relegated to Despot by John III of Nicaea, dying in 1244. His brother
Demetrius was Despot from 1244-46 but issued no coins in his own
name. Hendy has attributed a single anonymous issue to Demetrius but
this type is too large (larger even than the Series I coins of John C-D) and
of too good a style to be of such a late date. It possibly dates to 1230 and
was issued by John Asen II when he occupied the city after he had
defeated Theodore C-D but before he placed Manuel C-D on the throne.
6. S. Bendall, Notes on the Coinage in the name of John Comnenus-Ducas of
Thessalonica (AD 1237-44), Numismatic Chronicle, vol. 162, 2002,
pp. 253-63.
7. S. Bendall, 2002, table, no. 19. The specimen illustrated in DO is a
brockage. The muled brockage published here weighs 0.92 gm.
8. K. Dotchev, Monetii Parichno obrshcenic v Turnovo XII - XIV V, Veliki
Turnovo, 1992, p. 224, table XXIII, no. 4.
9. S. Bendall, 2002, table, no. 27.
10. It should be noted that the earliest two Thessalonican issues of of John III
are of a much finer style than any of the coins of John C-D.
11. This coin was found in Thessaly. Series I coins are seldom found in
Bulgaria which is where the smallest Series III coins are generally found.
In the coins from the excavations of the old Bulgarian capital of Turnovo
published by Dotchev (op. cit.) there were 11 coins of Series I (more than
would be suspected from casual finds from Bulgaria reaching Munich and
London), 12 coins of Series II and 133 of Series III of which a large part
were brockages (see footnote 4).
12. It is the writers recollection that few if any Series III were found in the
excavations in Ochrid which might confirm the fact that these small coins
only circulated in what is now Bulgaria.
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Fig. 1 (x1.5)
5034
Obv. THOMASFARENERBAKER around the Bakers arms.
Rev. INREDRIFFELANEI668
around HIS | HALF | PENY | F|TH
BW Surrey 257.
5035
Obv. ATTHEDARKEHOVSE around MF
Rev. INREDRIFLANE around | I653 |
BW Surrey 256.
Fig. 2
Farriner insisted that he had not been negligent, and the
placing of a plaque in Pudding Lane by the Worshipful Company
of Bakers (Fig. 2) supports the official conclusion that the fire
was an accident. Although a stock of fuel had been placed near
(or even in) the oven, a flash fire across flour dust now seems a
possibility. Resuming his trade after the Fire, Farriner made his
will on 4 December 1670, leaving 100 each, payable over four
years, to his daughters Hannah, wife of the baker Nicholas Day,
and Mary, wife of the baker Thomas Halford, with 40 shillings to
Robert Berry, cooper, 20 shillings to Daniel Harris, cooper, and the
remainder to his son Thomas, his sole executor. Thomas Farriner
had died by 5 December, when his son was admitted to the
freedom8.
The ODNB considers it uncertain whether the baker returned
to the Pudding Lane area after rebuilding. However, Thomas
Farriner did pay for a foundation to be staked out in Pudding Lane
on 20 January 1668[-9]9, and his token dated 1668 also suggests
that he intended to return to what evidently he preferred to call
Redriffe Lane, and that he had no other trading address.
Remarkably, the presence of an initial H for his wife appears to
indicate that, three years after Hannahs death, and in a house
which had to be rebuilt and presumably re-furnished, Thomas
considered their household to be continuing. The site was covered
with bricks and rubbish when the Keeper of the White Lion Gaol
had it pointed out by Robert Hubert (c.1640-1666), who claimed
to have fired the house, and so was hanged at Tyburn10.
Both of the newly-attributed tokens have been catalogued
already, but a reference at least can be made in Pudding Lane,
where many have looked in vain for tokens of the Kings Bakehouse. For example, a British Museum postcard on The Great Fire
of London (CM 34) illustrated medals and tokens, but amongst
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Book Reviews
The Indian Coinage Tradition: origins, continuity and change.
By Joe Cribb.
IIRNS Publications, a division of the Indian Institute of Research
in Numismatic Studies, P.O. Anjaneri, Dist. Nashik, 422 213,
India. 2005. Card covers; 24 x 18 cm., 72 pages, including
9 plates. ISBN 81-86786-22-8. Available from Spink 13
The IIRNS has a programme of publishing monographs and short
books for collectors. These cover a range of Indian coin series and
some related subjects. The aim of this book, like the others in the
series, is to provide collectors and students with a short and
readable survey of the material under consideration.
The body of Joe Cribbs book bears the title The Origins of the
Indian Coinage Tradition. His survey is based on a paper to the
Society for South Asian Studies first published in 1999. He traces
several artistic and monetary influences, which have shaped
Indian coinage tradition, or traditions, from the earliest period of
Indian coinage down to the modern period. He illustrates his
discussion with pictures of eighty-seven coins minted in many
regions of the Indian sub-continent. He presents a concise survey
that should prove useful to students and collectors who wish to
know the broad characteristics of the Indian coinage tradition,
without entering into the details of individual coin series.
The main body of the book is preceded by a short introduction
in which the author discusses several studies on the earliest
period of Indian coinage, which were published after Cribbs
paper of 1999.
The theme of the origin of Indian coinage is continued in two
appendices. These are based closely on two papers he wrote in
1983. The dating of Indias earliest coinage, like the inter-related
dating of the Buddhas nirvana and the dating of Indias history
for the first millennium BC, has been a controversial subject ever
since Alexander Cunningham espoused the early chronology for
Buddhas nirvana (c. 486 BC, earlier in the case of some writers)
when he was writing in the nineteenth century. Most histories
(including numismatic histories) written during the twentieth
century accepted this early chronology. Recent research is
increasingly showing that the early chronology is wrong by a
margin of at least one century. The Buddhas nirvana was later
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10 are struck from the same obverse die which should indicate
that all these coins arrived together officially in Georgia and that
Heraclius earliest gold supply comprised not only his own new
coinage but also coins of Focas that were still in the mint or
treasury when he became emperor.
The second group of seventh century hoards are slightly later
and belong to the joint reign of Heraclius and Heraclius
Constantine and contain no gold but only silver. Two hoards
comprise only Byzantine coins, one entirely of hexagrams and
another of hexagrams and two siliquae of Maurice Tiberius while
there are two other hoards containing a few hexagrams of
Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine but large numbers of
Sassanian dirhams/drachms. (For those interested, Moneta 31,
2003, catalogues the Sassanian coins found in Georgia). The
eleventh and twelfth century hoards, apart from some minor finds
of anonymous folles, comprise gold coins of various emperors
between Constantine VIII and John II and their composition is
quite standard.
English is not the first language of either author and the text is
occasionally slightly strange but the meaning is always quite clear
from the context. All in all this is a work of great interest, not only
for those interested in the circulation of Byzantine coins in
Georgia but also in Georgian coins although this might not be
obvious from the books title and none of them are illustrated in
the plates.
S.B.
B.A.N.S. Weekend
2-4 September 2005
University College Worcester
For the second year running the B.A.N.S. weekend, with
around thirty participants, took place at University College
Worcester, excellently organised by Joe Bispham and
generously supported by the Royal Mint and the Royal
Numismatic Society, with comfortable en suite
accommodation, great food, fantastic weather, and once again
our own common room with bar manned by Bob Thomas.
The weekend opened on Friday evening with an illustrated
talk by Angie Bolton, finds officer for Worcestershire, on
portable antiquities in Worcestershire. We saw photographs of
a wide range of small objects including axe heads, pot sherds
and dress hooks, whilst an antelope antoninianus of Gallienus
provoked a lively discussion among the audience, and a round
short cross farthing provided a treat for the mediaevalists.
Saturday morning we were treated to two unscheduled talks,
Kevin Clancy on a wooden block recently obtained by the Mint
museum containing some 1893 patterns by Edward Onslow
Ford, and Edward Besly on civil gallantry medals in the
National Museum of Wales. Back on the advertised
programme we had Derek Noakes talking about passes for
proprietors of the London Institution, with particular
reference to Robert Bingley, Kings Assay Master at the Royal
Mint from 1798 to 1837, and then the Royal Mint lecture,
where Patrick Mackenzie gave us the results of sorting through
vast quantities of circulating British coinage, with the
proportion of forgeries, particularly in the one pound coins,
and rare varieties among genuine mint productions. Saturday
afternoon was left free to explore Worcester and its environs,
and in the evening Graham Dyer spoke about Martin Coles
Harman and the 1929 puffin coinage for Lundy Island.
Sunday morning began with Henry Kim of the Ashmolean
Museum on medals of Oxford University, followed by Keith
Sugden on Roman contorniates, and the climax was the Royal
Numismatic Societys Howard Linecar Memorial Lecture,
given by Stewart Lyon on the ninth century coinage of
Northumbria to mark the half centenary of his paper in BNJ
XXVIII, showing both by die links and by orthographical
developments not only that Elizabeth Piries division of coinage
between the first and second reigns of Aethelred II was difficult
to sustain, but also that the actual sequence of reigns as
derived from historical sources was open to question. After
votes of thanks to the speakers and to Joe Bispham for having
organised such an excellent weekend, Michael Kenny of the
Numismatic Society of Ireland announced arrangements for
next years Congress in Dublin from 7 to 9 April 2006, and
following lunch participants dispersed, fully satisfied and very
much looking forward to coming again next year.
MICHAEL ANDERSON
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