H4416 - Continental
Imports (from Frisia and the Rhine mouth, c. A.D. 695 - c. A.D. 740),
Silver Sceat or Sceatta (Penny), 1.14g., Series E, Porcupine / Standard 'VICO' type,
porcupine like figure right, enclosing
H N rev.,
standard, VICO within (S.790; Metcalf p.213), interesting variety
with letters on the obverse, extremely fine, superb! $595
NOW $495
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The words VICO on
the reverse have been interpreted as a rendering of the latin word
vicus or the germanic word wic, both meaning a trading
outpost. Also commonly found on Merovingian coinage the legend may describe
the kind of place that this North Sea area trade coinage was produced and
traded in.
