R 10 Wigrd RD

Groups Three and Six. (RD) Abbreviated Spelling WIGRD.

There are twenty coins in this group, fifteen with a right facing bust and five with a left facing bust. There are only two styles of obverse in the right facing group of fifteen coins and three styles of reverse in the left facing group. There are six coins in the group RD 1/1 , this is the largest number in a group in the survey.

Coins highlighted in grey have LEFT facing heads/busts.

RD type one. This group do not have any pellets in the annulets on the obverse.

Coin ID 28 RD 1/1

Coin ID 29 RD 1/2

Reverse type 2 has a pellet within the central annulet on the reverse.

RD type RD 1/3 (coin ID 42) would have a reverse as below.

RD type RD 1/5 (coin ID 18) would have a reverse as below.

RD type RD 1/6 (coins ID 21 and ID 50) would have a reverse as below. These two coins are the only ones in the survey with a type six reverse. This style is very similar to that cut onto the reverse flan of some R4 Sceatta.

Copyright does not allow publication of above  coin images in this website.

RD type two. This group has pellets within the annulets on the obverse. As previously mentioned, sometimes the iconography is not as clear as would be liked. In this instance the pellets are difficult to identify. Diagrams below. Copyright does not allow publication of actual coin images in this website. Images of this coin can be seen on the EMC Fitzwilliam website,

https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/advanced-search and then insert the EMC/SCBI number in the box “EMC Number/SCBI Number”. 

Coin ID 36 RD 2/3

EMC 1980.9823

Coin ID 23 RD 2/4

Brit Mus 700

The image of coin ID 23 can be seen in SCBI Sylloge 63 of the British Museum by Gannon 2013 Brit Mus Press, Plate 30.

RD type three. This group has a left facing bust/head. There are two coins in this group, both RD 3/1. Abramson 210 and EMC 1001.0236. The annulets on the obverse do not have pellets within them neither does the annulet on the reverse.

Coin ID 05  RD 3/1

Image by permission of Dr T Abramson

RD type four. This group also has a left facing bust/head. There are two coins in this group. MEC 8 Fitz 564 and Brit Mus 703. A diagram of this type is below. An image of coin ID 10 can be seen in  European Medieval Coinage 8, Britain and Ireland 400-1066, Naismith CUP 2017 p562. The image of coin ID 26 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 in this website.

Coins ID 10 and ID 26 RD 4/1

RD type five. This group also has a left facing bust/head. There is only one coin in this group, EMC 1002.0017. The crown on the obverse has pellets within the triangles as do the annulets.  Images of this coin can be seen on the EMC Fitzwilliam website,

https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/advanced-search and then insert the EMC/SCBI number in the box “EMC Number/SCBI Number”.  Copyright does not allow publication of actual coin images in this website.

Coin ID 34 RD 5/1

EMC 1002.0017