THE VIKING MINT. 
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whole of Britain. Eric was placed on the throne of York by 
Athelstan. A sword is depicted on some of Eric’s coins. The 
coins of Regnald II. have various devices as Regnald’s head, the 
monogram of Charles the Bold, the open hand, the hammer of 
Thor, and the Bow and arrow. An example of the last was 
recently sold for £"6o 10s. Eadmund drove out Anlaf Quaran 
and Regnald II. and issued from York coins on which the annulet 
appears. Eric was subsequently restored as King of York, but in 
954 was conquered by Eadred of Wessex, who reduced North¬ 
umbria to an earldom. Archiepiscopal coins were struck at York 
during the Viking period. 1 
In September, 1807, a leaden box containing about 270 silver 
coins and some fragments of silver ornaments weighing about 2lbs. 
was turned up by the plough near the inn called Lobster House, 
eight miles from York and in the parish of Bossall. Amongst the 
reverses were Eborace for York, the open hand, the Carolus 
monogram, and the bow and arrow. There were also coins of 
Alfred, Edward the Elder, and Athelstan. 
In 1840, at Cuerdale, near Preston, in Lancashire, seven silver 
ingots, armlets, and fragments, weighing 974 oz. 10 dwts., and 
7,000 silver pennies were found in a small earthen vessel. 
Amongst the coins were those of Cnut 2534, St. Edmund 1815, 
Alfred 919, Siefred 238, Ecclesiastical 205, Eadweard 51, Halfdan 
2, Earl Sitric 2, Alvaldus 1. 
The Anglo-Danish Mint. 
Eadred, King of England, and his successors Eadwig, Eadgar, 
Edward the Martyr, and Ethelred II. (54) had each a mint at York. 
The King’s bust appears on the coins of Eadgar. On some of 
Ethelred II.’s coins a sceptre is shown in front of the bust; others 
have the King's bust in armour, with a radiate helmet. The 
reverses are varied : a hand, a cross voided with the letters 
CRVX respectively in the angles, a long cross voided each limb 
ending in three crescents, a long cross voided having a square 
centre with three pellets at each corner. This King had at York 
thirty-six moneyers. 
The Danish Kings Cnut (Canute) and Harold I. continued the 
York mint. On coins of the former the crowned bust is within a 
quatrefoil, the long cross voided on the reverse is similarly treated. 
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