A female bust(?) depicted on this #AngloSaxon c. 9th c. disc brooch found in Kent. @caitlinrgreen your opinion appreciated.pic.twitter.com/FqcMaH7TpI
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Crispina a good shout. The larger beads w/in the pelleted border (broken by the bust) I think represents lettering...pic.twitter.com/NHT3uo5mFq
...as on this nummular found in Costessey, South Norfolk. PAS NMS-C7A205.pic.twitter.com/xSlV4Jtnot
This Anglo-Saxon gold solidus names the Roman Empress Helena. From Anna Gannon 'The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage', p.39pic.twitter.com/4QaGsKdUS5
Finally again from CNG from Thessalonica with quite different hairstyle - quite likely Christians would be using St Helena rather than some random Empresspic.twitter.com/4ZinTkQ4YR
OTOH, the Mercian coins of Cynethryth now thought to be based on those of Faustina... :)
Perhaps no coincidence that my disc brooch was fnd 10 mi fm Canterbury where Cynethryth's coins were minted. The Helena solidus was found...
Chapel Hill, Markshall, nr. Caistor-by-Norwich, 'adjacent to the Anglo-Saxon cemetery between Marshall & Caistor St Edmund, mid 19th century
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