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Sceat Serie H - Type 49
| Issuer | Early Anglo-Saxon |
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| Year | 720-745 |
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| Reference(s) | BMC An-Sax#193, SCBI BM-NS#460-1 var., North#108 |
| Obverse description | Stylised facing head of Wodan rendered in debased Anglo-Saxon die-cutting style, enclosed within a pelleted border. Nine pellets-in-annulets are disposed around the border, serving as decorative punctuation elements characteristic of Series H sceats. A trefoil of pellets appears below the head in the lower field, a motif commonly associated with this type. The design reflects the abstracted, non-portrait tradition of secondary-phase sceat coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Series H sceattas were struck in Frisian-influenced trading zones, almost certainly at or near the emporium at Domburg on the island of Walcheren, placing this coin squarely within the North Sea commercial networks that connected Anglo-Saxon England to the Frankish littoral. Type 49 sits among the later H issues, produced as the sceatta system was beginning to fragment under monetary pressure — a contraction that would eventually push silver content down and output up before the series collapsed entirely in the 750s.
The BMC and SCBI references both note die variation within this type, and the North 108 attribution covers a loose grouping rather than a tightly defined emission.