H3008 - ENGLAND, VIKING, DANELAW, coin weight, 18.45g., 18 mm, late 9th century, lead drum shape with an Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian styca at each end, first coin: obverse of Eanred (810-840), +EANRED REX around a pellet in annulet, (retrograde), second coin: reverse of the moneyer,  Monne, +MONNE around a pellet, intact with no damage, good metal, possibly unpublished with two coins, extremely rare and interesting. $1995 NOW $750 SOLD

Williams* in his study of Anglo-Saxon and Viking coin weights, attributes weights containing Northumbrian stycas to the Vikings of the newly conquered Danelaw. This example would appear to correlate to the Viking weight standards of two ertugar or two-thirds of a eyrir. The Vikings appear to have rejected the base metal Northumbrian styca in favor of the broad flan silver penny. This did not however stop them from using the readily available demonetized styca as a decorative item on their weights.

*Williams, Gareth, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coin Weights, BNJ (69), 1999, pp 19-36.