Coinpeople presents the Second Season of the British Popular Coin Idol, in association with the Imperial Bank of Coinpeople. Same rules apply as usual, which do you prefer?


Auldfartte's Henry III 1216-1272 Long Cross Penny







OR


Æþeling's 924-939 Æðelstan Anglo-Saxon penny?

That's a poor example of Henry iii penny! Not fair?

Take you're choice, Henry II versus Athey, or versus the other two hammereds left, Cnut and Edward the Elder.

I go Æþelstan.

Henry the Third.

Æthelstan Penny

Auldfartte's Henry III 1216-1272 Long Cross Penny!

The first millenia penny.

The Anglo-Saxon penny simply because its name requires a special character combo to type. Unfortunately, I have no clue what that combination is.

Jim

It technically requires two specials if spelt correctly.

All in capitals then it should be;

ÆÐELSTAN (Æ = alt + 146) i forget the shortcut for Ð so i had to copy and paste that.

In lower case it's either;

Æðelstan (ð = alt + 0240) or Æþelstan (þ = 0254).


The 'thorn' (þ) and the 'eth'/'edh' (ð) is replaceable with 'th', although as someone once pointed out where's the logic in replacing one rune when another 'Æ' remains? You might as well either replace both with modern letters 'Ae', and 'th', or leave both intact.

Æðelstan is also often spelt as Athelstan, with the first e missing. All those spellings are acceptable. Generally the 'Athelstan' variety is the most encountered. In contrast to Æthelred where the Ethelred variant has largely gone out of fashion as the Æ variant has returned as part of the new shift to making things more historically accurate and less influenced by modern ideas of what it should be like.

Athey wins

As a non hammered collector - Pass!