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Hitherto, when only ME\u00d0 could be read, it was identified as the mint of the Abbey of Peterborough (Medehamstede), but this new coin shows that to be wrong.  Me\u00f0eltun, now seen on the coin, is a classic Old English form of modern Middleton, Malton or Melton.  The three surviving coins are linked by moneyers and style with Lincoln and Stamford, and so the mint is likely to be within the Five Boroughs, the most appropriate town being Melton Mobray, Leics.  This coin is highly important, not merely for identifying a new Anglo-Saxon mint, but for removing an otherwise exceptional attribution of a mint to the Abbey of Peterborough.  [See Mark Blackburn, \u2018Metheltun not Medeshamstede: an Anglo-Saxon mint at Melton Mowbray rather than Peterborough Abbey\u2019, British Numismatic Journal 70 (2000), pp. 143-5]"}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"CM.428-1999","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"CM.428-1999"},{"priref":"217594","type":"priref","value":"217594"},{"type":"North","value":"766"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/217594","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/217594"}],"inscription":[{"location":"obverse","transcription":[{"value":"+\u00c45ELREDRED REX \u00e3\u00d1O (sic)"}],"type":"design"},{"location":"reverse","transcription":[{"value":"+HILDE MO ME5ELTV"}],"type":"design"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"acquisition":[{"agents":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-192057","uid":"adlib-agent-192057","uuid":"38477dc2-77c0-38ac-8d3d-6493d2177214"},"summary_title":"Steele, A."}],"date":[{"earliest":1999,"latest":1999,"value":"1999-10-11"}],"method":{"value":"bought"}}],"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":978,"from":{"earliest":978,"latest":978,"value":"978"},"latest":978,"range":true},{"earliest":1016,"latest":1016,"range":true,"to":{"earliest":1016,"latest":1016,"value":"1016"}}],"maker":[{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"ruler"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-197491","uid":"adlib-agent-197491","uuid":"4f9ad938-4505-3717-9925-9261995eb37a"},"summary_title":"\u00c6thelred II (AD 978\u20131016)"},{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"moneyer"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-197485","uid":"adlib-agent-197485","uuid":"9b71e3f2-2d28-3e80-a7b6-a2103692d4a9"},"summary_title":"Hild"},{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"mint"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-191480","uid":"adlib-agent-191480","uuid":"accdbe2c-d613-3c17-a58d-7c9623a11458"},"summary_title":"Melton Mowbray"}]}]},"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-101415","uid":"adlib-term-101415","uuid":"e7b035c2-e124-323a-bce6-17eda1521db4"},"summary_title":"penny"},"type":"denomination"},{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-10603","uid":"adlib-term-10603","uuid":"09088083-a78d-3d70-9f4f-343b5c3283d7"},"summary_title":"Medieval"},"type":"series"},{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-14584","uid":"adlib-term-14584","uuid":"6fc1109e-9681-307b-b5a6-128b329f6df7"},"summary_title":"Anglo-Saxon"},"type":"subseries"},{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-107139","uid":"adlib-term-107139","uuid":"9fd5ef13-3709-388f-b925-702787340e32"},"summary_title":"England"},"type":"subsubseries"},{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-135074","uid":"adlib-term-135074","uuid":"3974e5d9-3363-3c5c-a0d2-4f719b539708"},"summary_title":"First hand type"},"type":"type"}],"note":[{"type":"history note","value":"Found near Easton, Hampshire, 1999"}],"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-101415","uid":"adlib-term-101415","uuid":"e7b035c2-e124-323a-bce6-17eda1521db4"},"summary_title":"penny"}},"summary_title":"penny","type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}