https://detectingfinds.co.uk/halfpenny-of-aethelstan-forgery?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=halfpenny-of-aethelstan-forgery Metal detecting finds identification and news, free online coin valuations, coin auction news Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:39:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://detectingfinds.co.uk/halfpenny-of-aethelstan-forgery#comment-869 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:39:53 +0000 https://detectingfinds.co.uk/?p=23506#comment-869 An Edward the Confessor small flan penny is 14mm in diameter and weighs about 1 gram (I have 2 and have checked them). Obviously this isn’t an Edward the Confessor coin, but I don’t agree with the comments that the weight/size are necessarily wrong. I can’t find anything on the internet or the books I have to give the Athelstan coin a positive ID (possibly North 668? or Spink 1104A?). Why would somebody make a fake coin of one that doesn’t exist? It’s all very intriguing. The moneyer is also correct for the king and the period. Your comment on a viking copy might well be correct, but again the copy must be based on some coin in use at the time?

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