The Cricklade Mint. 



Devizes there is but one, which belongs to the reign of William I., 

 and which was presented to it by the late J. Y. Akerman, Esq., of 

 Abingdon, and himself a member of an old Cricklade family. In 

 the Royal Cabinet at Stockholm, which contained four thousand 

 three hundred and thirty-two different specimens of Anglo-Saxon 

 coins at the time thatHildebrand published his catalogue, there are five 

 types or varieties belonging to the reign of Ethelred II., ten be- 

 longing to the reign of Canute, and a single specimen of the reign 

 of Harold I. At Copenhagen the royal collection of coins and 

 medals contains one penny of the reign of Ethelred II., sixteen 

 types and varieties of the reign of Canute, very few of which are 

 duplicates of the ten deposited at Stockholm, and one of the reign 

 of Edward the Confessor. In the University collection at Lund in 

 Scania (Sweden), there are two pennies of Canute. There are also 

 two Canute coins, duplicates of two of those at Copenhagen, in 

 the private collection belonging to the Count Bille-Brahe-Selbye 

 and Brahesminde in Fuynen (Denmark). At Bergen there is a 

 solitary specimen of the reign of Canute. The Director of the 

 University collection at Christiania and the Librarian at the Bodleian 

 at Oxford state that no Cricklade coins exist in their cabinets. It 

 is noticeable that almost all the coins found from time to time in 

 Scandinavia belong to the Danegeld period, which began in the 

 time of Ethelred, and terminated (as a payment to the Danes) in 

 the reign of Edward the Confessor. A few have been found of the 

 latter part of Edgar's reign, but none belonging to the Cricklade 

 mint. 



The writer has in most instances been unable to ascertain where 

 these various coins were found. Hildebrand gives the provinces and 

 districts in Scandinavia in which those in the Stockholm cabinets 

 were found, and shows that the great bulk were found in the eastern 

 provinces, but he does not specify the exact localities, or state what 

 coins were found in each. About sixteen were found among the twelve 

 thousand coins which were unearthed at Beaworth, near Alresford, 

 in 1833. They bore the name and effigy of William, and were in 

 such excellent preservation that it was clear they had never been in 

 circulation, the edges forced up between the collar and the die being 



