PLATE 26. COINS STRUCK AT EXETER. ONLY Six of the pennies in this Plate are in my cabinet. No. 2 belongs to J. D. Cuffe, Esq.; Nos. 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, are in the Royal Cabinet at Stockholm; and No. 4 is in that of Sir Montague L. Chapman, Bart. No. 1. Bust crowned, looking to its left, and going down to the outer edge of the coin. Reverse, a small cross in the field. Weight 18 grains. No. 2. Small cross in the centre of the obverse, and seven pellets in that of the reverse. Obv. +EADVVIG REX. Rev. ELFSIGE MON EX. Ælfsige appears as a moneyer on a coin of Eadgar's; see page 182 of the Olla. This coin fills up one of the blanks in my series of sovereigns of the mint of Exeter. No. 3. Eadweard the Martyr. Bust looking to its right. Reverse, a small cross in the field. Obv. +EADPEARD REX ANGLOR. Rev. JOHAN M-O EAXE, This coin fills up a second gap in my Exeter series. Plate 18, No. 4, of the Olla, gives a penny of Eadgar of the Exeter mint of this moneyer's. (Juhan.) The Rev. T. F. Dymock informs me, that in the Hunter Catalogue there is an Exeter penny of Edweard the Martyr, which reads IONAN M O EAXEL on its reverse, and is evidently the same moneyer's. No. 4. Æthelræd the Second, Hiberno-Danish type, small bust looking to its right. Weight 27 grains. Obv. +ÆTHELRÆD REX ANGLOR. This is the only instance in which I have found Exeter so spelt. But this moneyer appears on an Exeter penny of the Hiberno-Danish type, Plate 15, No. 17, of the Olla, and also in Mr. Hildebrand's list I believe Axminster is unknown as a mint, and I should presume its contraction would have been aXM. In this coin the variation has occurred by the omission of the first letter, E. RI Since writing these remarks on No. 4 I have been favoured with fac-similes in metal, taken by Ludvig Lössoe, Esq. of thirty-one Saxon coins which are chiefly from the Royal Cabinet at Copenhagen. Among them is one of Cnut, which reads, and which by our Danish friends is considered to have been struck at Axminster. If it was, the penny of Æthelred the Second will accompany it. Mr. Lindsay and myself think that both coins were struck at Exeter. No. 5. Cnut, type as Plate 15, No. 22, Olla. Weight 17 grains. Rev. ISEGOD ON EAX. No. 6. Cnut, type as Plate 15, No. 23, Olla. Weight 18 grains. Obv. +CNUT RECX A. Rev. +THEGNPINE ON ECX. No. 7. Harold the First, type as Plate 18, No. 5, Olla. Obv. +HAROLD RECX. Rev. EDMER ON EXCE. No. 8. Similar type. Obv. HAROLD RECX. Rev. +EDMÆR ONN (sic) ECX. No. 9. Type as Plate 15, No. 24, Olla. Obv. HAROLD REX. Rev. +EDMÆR ON ECXEC. No. 10. Harthacnut, type Plate 15, No. 25, Olla. Obv. +HARTHACNUT. Rev. +DODE ONN (sic) EXECE. It may be remarked that the sceptre on this coin is pommé, similar to the cross pommé on the reverse; and that the sceptres of Harold the First, Nos. 7 and 8 of this Plate, are fleurée pommé, in accordance with their reverses. This coin presents the peculiarity of wanting REX. No. 11. Bust looking to its left, and without the sceptre. Reverse type same as No. 9 of this plate. Obv. HARTHACNUT REX. Rev. +HÆRRA ON EXC. Hera is mentioned as a moneyer of Harold the First at page 187 of the Olla. I presume the different spellings are only the authorised variations of the day. As the mint of Dover has not hitherto been known as one of Harthacnut's, I may be allowed to digress from my more immediate subject to mention, that in the collection of Mr. Pfister is a penny which reads, Obv. HARTHACNUT REX. Rev. ETSIGE ONN (sic) DOFR (or DOFRA). No. 12. The sovereign type of Edward the Confessor. Rev. +LIFING ON EXECEST. Weight 194 grains. Mr. Webster has this sovereign penny, Rev. +PULMAER ON EXECES. No. 13. Type as Plate 15, No. 27, Olla. Weight 19 grains. Rev. +PICING ON EXECEST. No. 14. Rufus, his first type of two stars. Weight 214 grains. Rev. +AEMLFPINE ON AEXE. At page 190 of the Olla there is a reference to a penny of Rufus of this type, moneyer Aelfpine, most probably a variation of the same person. |