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Penny - Howel Dda Two line type
| Issuer | England |
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| Year | 942-950 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central annulet enclosing a small cross or rosette, surrounded by a raised inner circle. The royal legend is arranged in a circular band around the inner circle, reading in Latin script. The design is characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon hammered penny tradition, with the inscription identifying the issuing ruler. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hywel Dda — Hywel the Good — ruled much of Wales and briefly held enough political sway to issue coinage, an extraordinary step for a Welsh king. His coins were struck to Anglo-Saxon weight standards and almost certainly produced by English moneyers, reflecting his close alliance with the court of Æthelstan and later Edmund I. The two-line type takes its name from the arrangement of the moneyer's inscription across the reverse field, a format current in English mints of the same period.
Surviving examples are exceptionally rare. Hywel's coinage represents the only indigenous Welsh royal coin issue before the Norman conquest.