Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Viking Coinages: Kingdom of York, BRITISH COINS, Viking Coinages: Kingdom of York, Sihtric Caoch (921-7), Penny, perhaps Lincoln, hammer or t, sitdic dex, rev. sword, iioaprpyisiii, 1.38g/9h (EMC 2017.0001; Woods, NC 2016, p.278; Blackburn –; N 536; S 1013). Neatly struck on a full flan, about extremely fine and excessively rare £10,000-15,000

Provenance: Found in Nottinghamshire, Boxing Day 2016.

This appears to be a new transitional type between the anonymous Sword and hammer type and the substantive type of Sihtric which normally has the royal title in two lines above and below the sword