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COINS. 
On others the King is shown wearing a pointed helmet and has 
his sceptre in front of him ; the reverse cross voided has in each 
angle an annulet enclosing a pellet (55). One type shows the bust 
dividing the surrounding inscription. The reverses of Harold’s 
coins have either a cross formed of four ovals, or a cross voided 
and in each angle a fleur-de-lys between two pellets. Harthacnut’s 
coins have on the reverse a cross voided, in the centre of which is 
a circle enclosing a pellet. 
Edward the Confessor (56) issued eight types of coins from York, 
the finest of which are those showing on the obverse the King 
enthroned, and on the reverse the cross and martlets. 
A hoard of coins of the Confessor was found on Bishophill, 174 
of which are in the Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s Collection, 
and were described by Mr. Charles Wakefield, hon. curator, in 
the Report for 1910. 
Harold II., victor of Stamford Bridge, during his reign of a few 
months, issued from York a number of coins having “ PAX ” 
reverse in place of a cross. 
William I. 1066, to Edward I. 1272. 
The Conqueror struck silver pennies (57-58) upon the same 
principle as his Anglo-Saxon predecessors, retaining the same 
weight and fineness, and even imitating their types. His coins 
have been assorted into nine types, 1 the last have ‘ Pax ’ reverses 
copied from the coins of Cnut (Canute). The moneyers of Harold 
and Edward the Confessor were employed. The name of the 
King is given as “ PILLEMVS,” in which P is the symbol for 
the Anglo-Saxon W : “Willem” and “Willelm” also occur. The 
Domesday Survey records that Nigel de Monnevile had one 
mansion in York of a certain moneyer. 
Two large hoards of silver pennies of William I. have been 
found in York. In 1704 during excavations for the rebuilding of 
houses in High Ousegate, a workman found an oak box containing 
250 coins of which about 100 were worth preservation. Thoresby 
examined 50 or 60 of them. Three had been struck at York. Of 
type I. one bore OYDBEORN ON EOFI, the others were of 
type II. and struck by the moneyers Outhbeorn and Thorr 
respectively. In 1845, in taking down houses at the corner of 
1,1 The Coinage of William I. and II.,” by Fred Spicer, N.C. 1904. 
