Groups Two and Five. Short Tailed Æ (ÆS)

There are seventeen coins in this group. Four coins have a left facing bust while thirteen have a right facing bust. The unclear iconography on the obverse of coins ID 49 and ID 51 does not allow exact type classification. There are four coins of the type ÆS 3/1. 

ÆS type one has the long spelling of WIGRÆD but with the short tailed Æ. There are not any pellets within the annulets on the obverse.

Coin ID 02 ÆS 1/1

Image by permission of Dr T Abramson

ÆS type two has the long spelling of WIGRÆD but with the short tailed Æ, however, it has a double horizontal chevron behind the ear. The reverse is unclear but could be a type three reverse.

Coin ID 03 ÆS 2/3?

Image by permission of Dr T Abramson

ÆS type three  Images of type three can be seen on the EMC Fitzwilliam website,

https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/advanced-search 

then insert the EMC/SCBI number in the box “EMC Number/SCBI Number”.  Copyright does not allow publication of actual coin images on this website.

ÆS type four images can be seen in SCBI Sylloge 63 of the British Museum by Gannon 2013 Brit Mus Press, Plate 30. Copyright does not allow publication of actual coin images on this website. A diagram of ÆS type 4 is below, there is only one coin in this class. 

Coin ID 22 ÆS  4/3

ÆS type five. An image of ÆS type 5, Coin ID 46, can be seen on the EMC Fitzwilliam website:- https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/advanced-search then insert the EMC/SCBI number in the box “EMC Number/SCBI Number”.  Diagram below.

An image of coin ID 11 can be seen in  European Medieval Coinage 8, Britain and Ireland 400-1066, Naismith CUP 2017 p562. Copyright does not allow publication of actual coin images on this website. Diagram below. There are no pellets in the annulets on the obverse.

Both coins ID 11 and ID 46 are  ÆS  5/1

ÆS type six Images of ÆS type 6 can be seen in SCBI Sylloge 63 of the British Museum by Gannon 2013 Brit Mus Press, Plate 30. Copyright does not allow publication of actual coin images on this website. Both coins in this class are ÆS  6/1. Diagram below. There are pellets within the annulets on the obverse.

Coins ID 24 and ID 25 are ÆS  6/1

The ÆS group only contains five of the six types of reverses, style six is not found. See chart on next page.

This group also contains coin images that can be seen in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford Heberden Coin Room  website. https://hcr.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/ 

Click on “Advanced Search” then insert the Accession number e.g. 20791 into the third white box and press the green “Search” button.