10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCEATT»
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sceatt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Coinages of Western Europe: From the Fall of the Western ...
In all this country we can find trace of the sceatt, as will he shown more fully
presently. But as for Wessex, we have no coins which we can assign to this
country before the time of Ecghert (800), that is, long after the substitution of the
penny for ...
2
Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay ...
We can hardly be wrong, then, in thinking that this valuable fragment of Mercian
law in using the word sceatt referred back to ancient custom before the sceatt had
been superseded by the penny, and therefore must be good evidence that the ...
3
The Numismatic Chronicle
ton Water, and having its apex far inland at the extremity of the Mercian kingdom,
say Lichfield. In all this country we can find trace of the sceatt, as will be shown
more fully presently. But as for Wessex, we have no coins which we can assign to
...
4
The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society
1 seems to me to bo derived from is a sceatt-type, of which numerous examples
have been found in the Netherlands, and some at Dorstat itself (Fig. a). The type
is engraved in Dirk's Les Anglo-Saxons et leurs Sceattan, and is called by M. Dirk
...
5
The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilization
Their weights vary between 9 and 21 grains,38 which shows a certain similarity
to the weight of the earlier continental silver coinage39; they double in the same
way as the siliquae and half-siliquae. In a translation of the Bible sceatt is used
for ...
For this conviction, however, he gives us no reasons. For it there is, indeed, no
evidence. Against it there is surely convincing evidence. In the first place, the
money then raised is spoken of as “ sceatt,” not as “ geld,” which latter is the term
used ...
7
Widsith: A Study in Old English Heroic Legend
The sceatt was a current coin, but the term is also used generally in the sense of "
money," and I take that to be its force here, " money to the quantity of six hundred
counted in shillings," i.e. the beag is worth 600 shillings ( = 2400 sceattas, ...
Raymond Wilson Chambers, 1965
8
The British Numismatic Journal: Including the Proceedings of ...
Professor Grierson proposed the equation of the gold sceatt with one such grain (
Grierson 1961). However, because of minting charges it is possible that the
shilling of the laws was slightly heavier than the minted coin. There are
indications ...
An hour earlier hehad discovered a woman peddling marvelous honey cakes
with raspberry custard in them, and had offered a silver sceatt for as many as he
could eat on the spot, which had turned out to be eight. While wondering what ...
10
A Thesaurus of Old English: Index
1 2.0 1 .09.03 .0 1 .03 Part of ship sceatt 10.01.03 A sharing, participation; 15.01
Property; 15.01.04 Coinage, money; 15.02 Worth, value; 15.02.04.01 Payment for
temporary use, rent, hire; 15.03 Exaction of tax/tribute sceatt 05. 10.04.02 A ...
Jane Roberts, Christian Kay, Lynne Grundy, 2000
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCEATT»
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Ancient coins to go on display at King's Lynn Museum
Their name derives from Old English sceatt meaning 'wealth, money, coin', which has been applied to these coins since the 17th century. “It is likely, however, ... «Lynn News, Mar 15»
