Ætheling Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie582 Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 That's a poor example of Henry iii penny! Not fair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted August 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted August 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I go Æþelstan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Oli Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Henry the Third. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzy452 Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 Æthelstan Penny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkmiii Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Auldfartte's Henry III 1216-1272 Long Cross Penny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sisu Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 The first millenia penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bustchaser Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted August 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted August 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 Athey wins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stujoe Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 As a non hammered collector - Pass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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