SCBI 68: The Lyon Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins by Lyon, S.
Hardback, dustjacket, 317 pages. 42 black and white plates
This book records, illustrates, and discusses the context of
more than 1,000 coins from the Anglo-Saxon period, assembled by the author
during 60 years of scholarly research and deposited by him in the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge, on
lifetime loan. The composition of the collection reflects this research and is
therefore particularly strong in the so-called sceattas and stycas of the kingdom of Northumbria, and also in silver pennies
of Edward the Elder from the early 10th century, as well as the issues of
Æthelred II and Cnut which immediately preceded and followed the former's death
in 1016. A textual chapter discusses and points to a resolution of the
discrepancy in 9th-century Northumbrian chronology as presented by Norman
historians and from analysis of the coinage. A later chapter reviews the
evidence of documents, hoards and the analytical study of the surviving coinage
for the dates and durations of its periodic renewal in the fifty years after
its reform by Edgar c.973.
About the Author
Stewart Lyon, Independent scholar
Educated at Liverpool
College and Trinity
College, Cambridge (MA, PhD). President, British
Numismatic Society 1966-70 (currently a Vice-President) and Sanford Saltus gold
medallist 1974. An actuary by profession; President of the Institute of
Actuaries 1982-84.
