The styca (pronounced [ˈstykɑ]; pl. stycas) was a small coin minted in pre-Viking Northumbria, originally in base silver and subsequently in a copper alloy...

copper alloy, these coins are commonly known as stycas, but the term is an antiquarian invention. Stycas remains in use throughout the kingdom until at...

Eanred's reign sees the appearance of the styca, a new style of small coin which replaced the earlier sceat. These stycas were of low silver content, later coins...

few years later, but no further details are known of his murder. The new styca coinage, small brass coins containing very little silver and much zinc,...

Copper alloy of styca of King Osberht...

called Stycas. Reprinted from the Archaeologia, Vol. XXV". Archaeologia Aeliana. 3. Lyon, C S (1955). "A REAPPRAISAL OF THE SCEATTA AND STYCA COINAGE...

Silver styca of Aethelred...

Copper alloy of styca of King Raedwulf...

word broþer is written with a ligatured ᛖ and ᚱ (er) on some Northumbrian stycas The Latin word meus is written as mæus with a ligatured ᛗ and ᚫ (mæ) on...

pieces, two pieces of vitrified stone and a bronze coin, identified as a styca of Wigmund, the Archbishop of York between 831 and 854 C.E. When a ferry...

churchyard in Hexham which contained some 8000 stycas. After a final phase of considerable disorganisation, the stycas were phased out by the Scandinavian rulers...

Eanbald II Archbishop of York Copper styca of Eanbald II Appointed c. 796 Term ended c. 808 Predecessor Eanbald I Successor Wulfsige Orders Consecration...

ninth century, both kings of Northumbria and archbishops of York minted styca coinage. The historian Stewart Lyon estimated that Wigmund produced coinage...

vacant for eight years. Like previous archbishops of York, Wulfhere issued styca coins; Wulfred was his moneyer. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology...

silver coins and eventually replacing them with copper pennies (known as stycas) while the other English kingdoms were producing the larger standard silver...

Barwick-in-Elmet with Philip Mayes. Pirie became the foremost expert on styca coinage and her volume Coins of the Kingdom of Northumbria "provides an...

(Bamburgh Hoard) 1999 and 2004 Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle 384 base metal stycas Copper alloy fragments Bronze folding balance Beeston Tor Hoard 9th century...

The Hexham hoard consisted of approximately eight thousand Northumbrian stycas. These included specimens from the reigns of three kings Eanred, Aethelred...

and Edward the Confessor. Archbishop Wigmund of York also issued copper stycas and a gold solidus in his own name. Blackburn 1999. p. 113. Blackburn, Mark...

Medals", in British Museum Quarterly (1936) 129 "A Collection of Northumbrian Stycas in the possession of Sir Carnaby Haggerston", in History of the Berwickshire...

hoard was a hoard of c. 10,000 early medieval Northumbrian coins known as stycas, discovered by workers during construction work at St Leonard's Place in...

Northumbria following the deposition of Osred II and institutes minting of the styca to replace the silver sceat. 792 12 August – death of Jænberht, Archbishop...

Austin/Desmond, 2007 Keith Chapman: 'Alexander Mackenzie - Paintings 1951 to 2001', Styca Publishing, 2023 "Alexander Mackenzie". The Times. No. 67585. London. 18...

there is no further find spot recorded. The hoard comprised 542 or more stycas, as well as a silver trefoil ornament. The coins within the assemblage were...

Palenque. 15 October - The Hexham Hoard of eight thousand copper-alloy coins (stycas) in a bronze bucket is discovered while a grave is being dug close to Hexham...

Ellis published several articles in the Numismatic Chronicle, including on stycas of Northumbria, and on the episcopal coinage of York. Wikisource has original...

the west wall. In 1808 a hoard of perhaps 543 Northumbrian copper alloy stycas and a silver trefoil ornament was found amongst an uprooted tree in the...

three clay spindle whorls. Coins associated with the hoard include six stycas, four pennies of Burgred of Mercia, one fragment of a Carolingian denier...

Northumberland, of a Brass Vessel, containing a Number of Anglo-Saxon Coins, called Stycas. Reprinted from the Archaeologia, Vol. XXV". Archaeologia Aeliana. 3. Archaeologia...

1844 workmen digging a drain discovered a hoard of c.10,000 Northumbrian stycas, many of which were subsequently sold privately. However a portion of the...