1592997240000 1499094578000 Standard Record object-217594 1747245954405 1711456948000 1747245848529 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-217594 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/217594 25ae7f86-ca2c-3459-b450-49735057a2f2 7 reference term-100804 adlib-term-100804 9e0fb390-67dd-35ac-8ebe-1f9145b90880 coin reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 20.2 Die Axis degrees 0 Weight g 1.14 Object reference term-119622 adlib-term-119622 dd6626e9-5822-307d-aa31-13c8813e7555 struck Coins and Medals This is only the third-known coin of this mint and it allows us to see a much fuller form of the mint name. Hitherto, when only MEÐ could be read, it was identified as the mint of the Abbey of Peterborough (Medehamstede), but this new coin shows that to be wrong. Meðeltun, 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, ‘Metheltun not Medeshamstede: an Anglo-Saxon mint at Melton Mowbray rather than Peterborough Abbey’, British Numismatic Journal 70 (2000), pp. 143-5] CM.428-1999 1 accession number CM.428-1999 217594 priref 217594 North 766 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/217594 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/217594 obverse +Ä5ELREDRED REX ãÑO (sic) design reverse +HILDE MO ME5ELTV design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-192057 adlib-agent-192057 38477dc2-77c0-38ac-8d3d-6493d2177214 Steele, A. 1999 1999 1999-10-11 bought 978 978 978 978 978 1 1016 1016 1 1016 1016 1016 ruler reference agent-197491 adlib-agent-197491 4f9ad938-4505-3717-9925-9261995eb37a Æthelred II (AD 978–1016) moneyer reference agent-197485 adlib-agent-197485 9b71e3f2-2d28-3e80-a7b6-a2103692d4a9 Hild mint reference agent-191480 adlib-agent-191480 accdbe2c-d613-3c17-a58d-7c9623a11458 Melton Mowbray reference term-101415 adlib-term-101415 e7b035c2-e124-323a-bce6-17eda1521db4 penny denomination reference term-10603 adlib-term-10603 09088083-a78d-3d70-9f4f-343b5c3283d7 Medieval series reference term-14584 adlib-term-14584 6fc1109e-9681-307b-b5a6-128b329f6df7 Anglo-Saxon subseries reference term-107139 adlib-term-107139 9fd5ef13-3709-388f-b925-702787340e32 England subsubseries reference term-135074 adlib-term-135074 3974e5d9-3363-3c5c-a0d2-4f719b539708 First hand type type history note Found near Easton, Hampshire, 1999 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum

reference term-101415 adlib-term-101415 e7b035c2-e124-323a-bce6-17eda1521db4 penny

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