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sceat
Sceattas (singular sceat) were small, thick silver coins minted in England, Frisia and Jutland during the Anglo-Saxon period.
==History==
Their name derives from Old English sceatt meaning 'wealth, money, coin', which has been applied to these coins since the seventeenth century, based on interpretations of the law-code of King Æthelberht of Kent and Mercian law (see Bosworth & Toller, ''An Old English Dictionary''). It is likely, however, that the coins were more often known to contemporaries as pennies (Old English ''peningas''), much like later Anglo-Saxon silver coins. They are very diverse, organised into over a hundred numbered types derived from the British Museum Catalogue of the 1890s, and by broader alphabetical classifications laid out by Stuart Rigold in the 1970s.
The huge volume of finds made in the last thirty years using metal detectors has radically altered understanding of this coinage, and while it is now clear that these coins were in everyday use across eastern and southern England in the early eighth century, it is also apparent that the current organisation is in considerable need of adjustment.
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