7/5/2023 0 Comments Scandinavian coinage![]() ![]() Oswald (a Northumbrian royal saint), the triquetra represents the Trinity in some 7th-/8th-century art, and the triangular banner on the coins is decorated with a cross.e can speculate whether the designers were subtly appealing to a dual audience. Yet each of these designs can also be recognized in a Christian context: the raven is associated with St. The following issue also has Scandinavian motifs: a triquetra, a common element in interlace design and a motif the recurs on 11th-century Danish and Norwegian coins, and a triangular banner of distinctive Viking form found in Scandinavian metalwork and on some rare London coins of Cnut. ![]() It shows the classic Viking symbol, a raven, with head turned left and outstretched wings. Blackburn's descriptions of these coins, in his article in Aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian York, is unsupassable: " has one of the most dramatic coin designs in the English series. The Raven and Triquetra types appear to have been the two earliest issues from Viking York, with the former believed to have only lasted during the reign of Anlaf Guthfrithsson, while the latter belonged to his successor, Anlaf Sithricsson (Cuaran). CTCE and a variety of articles by the late Mark Blackburn). The exact arrangement of the Viking coinage has been a matter of great debate, and only recently has the picture been relatively clear, with the advent of specialized studies that examined the coinage in context with the contemporary Anglo-Saxon issues (esp. The last group, comprising the Raven and Triquetra types, are perhaps the most intriguing. There are three groups of coins that were struck: those following the types of the contemporary Anglo-Saxon coinage, types that were copies of special issues by the Anglo-Saxons or earlier Vikings, and types that were new, original Norse designs. During this occupation, the Vikings struck a variety of coin issues, all quite rare today, with fewer than 200 of all vareities combined. This occupation lasted until Eadred defeated them in 954, although the Anglo-Saxons briefly recovered York from 944-7 and 948-9. In 939, following the death of Aethelstan, the Vikings, under Anlaf Guthfrithsson, occupied York. Ex Dix, Noonan, & Webb 72 (13 December 2006), lot 44 (illustrated on cover). 2 Following Bartel (1974: 703): ‘It was an important precursor to the attempts at international monetary cooperation which were to come after the Second World War. ![]() In Scandinavia, bartering was still the common form of exchange, so coins were rather useless as payment. The Scandinavian Currency Union is sometimes considered the most successful of the monetary unions established in Europe during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Romans coins would not have held monetary value in the currency system of the northern tribes. Very rare.įrom the Andrew Wayne Collection. It can be deduced that Roman coinage was likely circulated during these trade relations, though not necessarily intentionally. CTCE group IV, a-al SCBI 4 (Copenhagen) 628-33 var. FORVM ANCIENT COINS To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. , raven with wings displayed, head left / + ΛÐELFERD MINETR Γ, small cross pattée.ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Hiberno-Norse Northumbria). ![]()
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