Anglo-Frisian, temp. Louis the Pious (c. 814-840), AV Solidus, c. 816-818, Scandinavian Settler Mint in Southern England [?], PIVVDOV^IIMVS (this legend based on the prototype: DN LVDOVICVS IMP AVG), crude laureate and draped bust right, with finely incised hair and imposing portrait features, rev. MVNVS DIVIIVM (this legend based on the prototype: MVNVS DIVINUM), crucifix cross pattée in suspended wreath, 4.31g [66.5grns], 7h [?] (EMC 2020.0384 this coin; Grierson, cf. Type XIV; MEC I, nos 752-756; cf. Prou 1075 -; Coupland [2016], pp. 265-266), an extraction scuff along chin and tip of nose resulting in an overt flan bend and stress marking to corresponding area of reverse, otherwise of competent and presumably early workmanship, of sound and residually lustrous buttery-gold fabric, strictly very fine, but extremely rare with about two-dozen examples recorded
