A sceat or sceatta (/ʃæt/ SHAT; Old English: sceatt [ʃæɑt], pl. sceattas) was a small, thick silver coin minted in England, Frisia, and Jutland during...

brother, Archbishop Ecgbert of York. These coins were primarily small silver sceattas, more suitable to small, everyday transactions than larger gold Frankish...

contemporaries as pæningas or denarii, though now often referred to as sceattas by numismatists. Broader, thinner pennies inscribed with the name of the...

a "minor though recurring theme" in the secondary phase of Anglo-Saxon sceatta production (c. 710–760). It is found in similar artwork on early Christian...

Silver Northumbrian sceatta of Alchred...

II coins (some 30 items), 7th century; reading pada Kent III, IV silver sceattas, c. 600; reading æpa and epa Suffolk gold shillings (three items), c. 660;...

Silver sceatta of Eadberht...

Frisian sceattas c.710–735...

commonly accepted coin type in inter-regional trade. For instance, the silver sceattas were a popular type of coin in England, the Netherlands and the Frisian...

were the home to major mints in this period, primarily producing silver sceattas. This suggests that from the seventh century onward, kings in Kent were...

problem of the value and scarcity of the currency. The miscellaneous silver sceattas minted in Frisia and Anglo-Saxon England after around 680 were probably...

XXV". Archaeologia Aeliana. 3. Lyon, C S (1955). "A REAPPRAISAL OF THE SCEATTA AND STYCA COINAGE OF NORTHUMBRIA" (PDF). British Numismatic Journal. 28:...

Metcalf, D. M. (2000). "Determining the mint-attribution of East Anglian Sceattas through regression analysis" (PDF). British Numismatic Journal. 70: 1–11...

included west Kent. During this period, Essex kings were issuing their own sceattas (coins), perhaps as an assertion of their own independence. However, by...

that the Mercians undertook to obey. At the start of the 8th century, sceattas were the primary circulating coinage. These were small silver pennies,...

of Account in Gold and Silver in Seventh-Century England: Scillingas, Sceattas and Pæningas" (PDF). The Antiquaries Journal. 90. Society of Antiquaries...

thousand", and some specify thirty thousand pounds. If the pounds are equal to sceattas, then this amount is the equal of a king's weregild—that is, the legal...

Frisian sceattas from approximately 710 to 735...

were replaced by small, thick, silver coins known as sceattas around the year 675. These sceattas were also produced in England, as well as in Germanic...

east coast of Britain, including Yorkshire. Small silver coins, known as sceattas, were minted in England by the early 8th century, and from the late 8th...

thousand", and some specify thirty thousand pounds. If the pounds are equal to sceattas, then this amount is the equal of a king's wergild—that is, the legal valuation...

650 AD) many coins have been found on the beach including Anglo-Saxon sceattas. The settlement on the exact present day location of Domburg however originates...

tremissis, Midlum sceat, Kent II coins (some 30 items), Kent III, IV silver sceattas, Suffolk gold shillings (three items), Upper Thames Valley gold coins (four...

possibly from a mint near Selsey where the finds of coins termed Series G sceattas are concentrated. That a cash economy had returned by the 10th century...

sceatt was a unit of gold with the weight of a grain of barley, with 20 sceattas per scilling. One ox was probably valued at one scilling or "shilling"...

compensation. According to Æthelberht's law, pulling someone's hair cost 50 sceattas, a severed foot cost 50 shillings, and "damaging the kindling limb" (the...

scillingas (shillings) or thrymsas. Ecgfrith's pennies, also known as sceattas, were thick and cast in moulds, and were issued on a large scale. Stephen...

succeeded by Antenor. Nemfidius issued coins, some of which have reached us. Sceattas in England and on the continent: the Seventh Oxford Symposium on Coinage...

Hamwic [Anglo-Saxon Southampton]: finds include gold thrymsas and some 50 sceattas, with contemporary Merovingian coins and a small group of Northumbrian...

University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5. Wood, Ian (2008). "Thrymas, Sceattas and the Cult of the Cross". Two Decades of Discovery. Studies in Early...