Aethelred II id help

[Viking 0]

Any information about the coin is welcome, like moneyer,city,reference number, catalogue nr,first or second hand type, rare, common, links?

I have browsing the internet entire day, without success to find a another example.

I could take better photos if necessary.

Thanks for helping

 

[TomGoodheart 403]

Mmm .. not a series I know much about but I'm thinking second hand (because of the sceptre), Spink 1146.

Moneyer?  Looks like LVDA M-O EXACEAST, ie Luda of Exeter.  Only a moneyer for Aethelred II and only for Exeter I believe. 

Rarity?  Can't help there I'm afraid.  Hopefully another member will chip in later.

Example (but first hand) illustrated with that reading for Exeter here: Baldwins 55 Lot 2249

Another example, this time second hand and with the pellets your coin has (but different legend) but sadly no illustration:  DNW March 1995

Edited February 14, 2016 by TomGoodheart

[copper123 1,523]

Looks a bit dodgy to me - it is very round and well centred for a coin of that age - also it is a much faked period - I certainly would have been very warey about paying much for it

[Rob 3,155]

Looks ok to me, just not a very nice example with the crack and a weak portrait doesn't help. It's scarce, but not rare.

Just because they are round does not mean they are iffy, in fact all the indicators point to some coins of this period being cut out similar to a pastry cutter in the form of a metal tube as you find numerous examples with no wear but a wavy flan, suggesting they have been forced from a tube using a rod.

I'm assuming this is a detector find as an Ethelred Second Hand penny is not the first thing you would find around the house unless dug, in which case the best advice is to pick up a copy of Spink's coins of England or English Hammered Coinage c.600-1272 by J J North (this type being in volume 1). At a few pounds for a previous edition of the first, or 10-15 for the second on anything bar the final edition, it makes identification easy. Much easier than wasting a day trawling the internet for matching images.

 

[TomGoodheart 403]

Yes. I used a 10 year old copy of Spink for the basic ID then searched for that online to confirm moneyer and town...

[Viking 0]

Thanks for all your help.

I don´t have a copy of Spink, I´m going to ordered it in the next few days, good to have in the future. 
I suspected that it might be a good book to have in the reference Library.

EXACEAST, I did have full focus to find an example with two cross E(cross)ACEAST and that at 12.

I missed that crack in the middle when I was at the auction, always a stressed moment to check the coins at the coinclub.
The coin is from an old Swedish collection, perhaps it has been found here once.

So probably I´m going to sell it in the near future and replace it with a better one, I want to have have a few of Atltereds coins as they were quite common here in sweden and also our king Olof Skötkonung produced imitations.
A coin with Godwine as moneyer should be extra fun as he probably helped us in Sweden to produce our own coins.

The photos was not the best, to bad light. It looks little better in hand.

Thanks again.

[TomGoodheart 403]

That's OK Viking.  And welcome!