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Sceat Series Z

Issuer Early Anglo-Saxon
Year 680-710
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Diameter 11-12 mm
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Obverse script Latin (pseudo-legend)
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Reverse script Latin (pseudo-legend)
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Series Z sceattas were struck in the decades immediately following the Synod of Whitby, when Northumbrian ecclesiastical authority was consolidating and small-denomination silver coinage was proliferating rapidly across the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms without any centralized minting control. Attribution to a specific issuing authority remains genuinely unresolved — no mint site has been confirmed, and die-link studies by Metcalf suggest production was geographically concentrated but not definitively localized. The series is typologically distinct enough to be isolated, yet common enough that it clearly served active exchange rather than ceremonial or gift use.

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