The styca (pronounced [ˈstykɑ]; pl. stycas) was a small coin minted in pre-Viking Northumbria, originally in base silver and subsequently in a copper alloy...
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copper alloy, these coins are commonly known as stycas, but the term is an antiquarian invention. Stycas remains in use throughout the kingdom until at...
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Copper alloy of styca of King Osberht...
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few years later, but no further details are known of his murder. The new styca coinage, small brass coins containing very little silver and much zinc,...
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Copper alloy of styca of King Raedwulf...
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Eanred's reign sees the appearance of the styca, a new style of small coin which replaced the earlier sceat. These stycas were of low silver content, later coins...
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called Stycas. Reprinted from the Archaeologia, Vol. XXV". Archaeologia Aeliana. 3. Lyon, C S (1955). "A REAPPRAISAL OF THE SCEATTA AND STYCA COINAGE...
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word broþer is written with a ligatured ᛖ and ᚱ (er) on some Northumbrian stycas The Latin word meus is written as mæus with a ligatured ᛗ and ᚫ (mæ) on...
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churchyard in Hexham which contained some 8000 stycas. After a final phase of considerable disorganisation, the stycas were phased out by the Scandinavian rulers...
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