His son, Honorius, ruled as a Christian emperor. Yet the pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a clearly Christian coin. Related: Roman coin trove discovered on Mediterranean island may have been hidden ...

The early Anglo-Saxon creator was imitating a Roman coin called a solidus, showing the emperor Honorius on one side and a figure holding a banner on the other A "very unusual" gold pendant made by ...

They are said to be the first coins made and used in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and predate the first gold coinage made in Anglo-Saxon England. The find is one of only eight hoards ...

An Anglo-Saxon penny fetched £230,000 at auction - breaking the world record for a British coin. Specialists at Spink auction house in London had expected it to fetch between £120,000 and £150,000.

Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.

Test yourself on your knowledge of Anglo-Saxon coins. Find out more about Anglo-Saxon money by taking the Conquest of Wessex Kings History Trail. Search term: BBC ...

The coin was created for an Anglo-Saxon ruler who would go on to have the earliest recorded coronation in British history A small 10th century coin minted during the reign of the first crowned ...

A hoard of more than 100 Anglo-Saxon coins discovered by two metal detectorists in a field near Braintree, Essex, is headed to auction at Noonans Mayfair on February 21. Believed to have been ...

The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The silver halfpenny, described as “one of the single best Anglo-Saxon coin finds ever recorded” measures just 15 millimetres in diameter, the size of a fingernail. It was in circulation ...