Coins and Historical Medals

Low Countries, DORESTAD, Louis the Pious (814-40), Denier au temple, hlvdovicvs [––], cross with pellet in each angle, rev. dorestatvs mon, temple, 1.24g/6h (MG 337; cf. MEC I, 819). Good fine, extremely rare £1,200-£1,500

found near Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk), September 2023

According to MEC, only three specimens are known - one from Germany (Pilligerheck Hoard 1956) and two from the Netherlands, one each from the Yde (Drenthe) Hoard 1955 and Tzummarum II (Friesland) Hoard 1991. This specimen seems to be the first found in the UK and may have been brought to its East Anglian findspot by Vikings in the 850s or 860s.