AETHELSTAN, 925-941.

_Obverse_, crowned bust or cross, and name ÆTHELSTAN, ETHELSTAN,

ÆDELSTAN, or abbreviated; R or REX, or REX SAXORVM, or REX TOTIVS

BRITANNIÆ, etc. _Reverse_, cross, building, or other device, and name

of moneyer, etc. On some the name is in lines across the coin, and

some are devoid of all ornament. The names upon these coins, of towns

where minted, are Derby, Bath, Southampton, Canterbury, Exeter, York,

Gloucester, Hereford, Leicester, London, Langport, Norwich, Oxford,

Rochester, Shaftesbury, Shrewsbury, Nottingham, Stafford, Worcester,

Wallingford, Wareham, and Winchester, and the number of known varieties

of moneyers’ names closely approaches 220.

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