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MUSEO NAZIONALE ROMANO
Medagliere
RIPOSTIGLI
collana a cura di
Gabriella Angeli Bufalini
Front cover: The Atrium Vestae as it was in 1884, shortly after the discovery of the Forum hoard in November 1883
(SSBAR, Archivio Fotografico,13/FR/CV/A)
Back cover: Modern reconstruction of the bag which once may have contained the Forum hoard (by Bob Naismith)
In copertina: L’Atrium Vestae così come appariva nel 1884, poco dopo la scoperta del ripostiglio nel novembre del 1883
(SSBAR, Archivio Fotografico, 13/FR/CV/A)
In quarta di copertina: Moderna ricostruzione della sacca che un tempo avrebbe potuto contenere il ripostiglio dell’Atrium Vestae
(di Bob Naismith)
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MINISTERO DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI E DEL TURISMO
BOLLETTINO
DI NUMISMATICA
55-56
ANNO 2011 NUOVA SERIE
gennaio-dicembre
ROMA, MUSEO NAZIONALE ROMANO
THE FORUM HOARD OF ANGLO-SAXON COINS
IL RIPOSTIGLIO DELL’ATRIUM VESTAE
NEL FORO ROMANO
di
Rory Naismith
Francesca Tinti
ISTITUTO POLIGRAFICO E ZECCA DELLO STATO
Roma 2016
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MINISTERO DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI E DEL TURISMO
BOLLETTINO DI NUMISMATICA
Via di San Michele, 22 - 00153 Roma
www.numismaticadellostato.it
Direttore Silvana Balbi de Caro
Capo redattore e coordinatore di redazione Gabriella Angeli Bufalini
Redazione Fabiana Lanna, Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio
Responsabile settore grafico Stefano Ferrante
[email protected]
Acquisizione immagini Gianfranco Boscarino
Comitato tecnico scientifico Ermanno A. Arslan, Renata Cantilena, Emanuela Ercolani Cocchi,
Salvatore Garraffo, Giovanni Gorini, Andrea Saccocci, Aldo Siciliano
Roma 2016
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CONTENTS / SOMMARIO
Preface / Prefazione
Rory Naismith, Francesca Tinti, The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins /
Il ripostiglio dell’Atrium Vestae nel Foro Romano (traduzione di Alessio Fiore)
Introduction / Introduzione ................................................... p. 3 / 295
Discovery, Preservation and Research / Scoperta, conservazione e studi ............. » 4 / 296
Context of the Hoard: Rome and the House of the Vestals in the Tenth Century /
Il contesto del ripostiglio: Roma e la Casa delle Vestali nel X secolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 6 / 298
Summary of Contents / Il contenuto del ripostiglio .............................. » 14 / 301
The Hoard in its English Setting / Il ripostiglio nel suo contesto inglese .............. » 24 / 311
A Payment to the Papacy? / Un versamento al papato? ............................ » 38 / 319
The Anglo-Viking Coins / Le monete anglo-vichinghe ............................. » 44 / 325
The Non-English Coins / Le monete di origine non inglese ........................ » 45 / 326
The Hooked Tags / I fermagli a uncino .......................................... » 48 / 328
Conclusion / Conclusioni ..................................................... » 50 / 329
CATALOGUE / CATALOGO di Rory Naismith
Kingdom of England
Alfred (871-99) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 53
Edward The Elder (899-924) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 55
Æthelstan (924/5-39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 114
Æthelstan / Edmund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 225
Edmund (939-46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 226
Irregular English Issues of Uncertain Ruler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 279
Uncertain English King (Edward – Edmund) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . » 281
Archbishopric of Canterbury
Plegmund (890-923) ....................................................... p. 282
Viking Kingdom of York
Olaf (?Guthfrithsson, 939-41) ................................................ p. 283
Sihtric (?Sihtricsson, circa 942-3) ............................................. » 285
Olaf (?Sihtricsson, 941-4) ................................................... » 285
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Kingdom of Italy
Berengar I as emperor (915-24) .............................................. p. 286
Hugh of Arles and Lothar II (931-47) ......................................... » 286
West Frankish Kingdom
Odo (888-97) ............................................................. p. 287
Ottonian Empire
Otto I (936-73) ........................................................... p. 287
Duchy of Bavaria
Berthold (938-47) ......................................................... p. 288
Byzantine Empire
Theophilus (829-42) ........................................................ p. 288
Small fragments ........................................................... p. 289
Metalwork ............................................................... p. 293
BIBLIOGRAPHY / BIBLIOGRAFIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p . 333
INDICES / INDICI
Minting authorities / Autorità emittenti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 349
Mint-places / Zecche ......................................................... » 349
Moneyers / Monetieri......................................................... » 351
Plates / Tavole fuori testo ..................................................... » 358
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Dedicated to the memory of Mark Blackburn (1953-2011)
and Nicholas Brooks (1941-2014)
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Plate I
Kingdom of England. Alfred (871-99) Kingdom of England. Edward the Elder (899-924)
London. London monogram penny (obverse, cat. no. 1) London region. Bust Diademed penny (obverse, cat. no. 198)
tavole fuori testo def 55-56.indd 2 12/07/16 20:02
Preface
This volume represents the welcome but unforeseen product of a project commenced by the two
authors in summer 2011, generously supported by a British Academy Small Research Grant given to
explore the larger question of relations between England and Rome in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
During a visit to Rome in September 2012, we examined the Forum hoard in the Medagliere of the
Museo Nazionale Romano and were invited by the director of the Medagliere, Dr. Gabriella Angeli
Bufalini, to conduct research on the hoard and prepare a catalogue of it for publication in the series
Bollettino di Numismatica.
Our work on bringing this project to completion has been supported at every stage by many
colleagues and institutions. In Rome, the Medagliere of the Museo Nazionale Romano has hosted us
on several visits, and its staff has answered innumerable queries promptly and professionally. Particular
thanks are due to Gabriella Angeli Bufalini for initiating and coordinating the project, and also to Fabiana
Lanna, who has dealt with practical issues concerning the publication with patience, good humour and
impressive attention to detail. We have also been privileged to stay and work in the convivial surroundings
of the British School at Rome, and our research has benefited enormously from the resources of the
School’s unparalleled library. Furthermore, the director of the British School, Prof. Christopher Smith,
kindly provided us with letters of introduction to libraries and museums across Rome. We are grateful to
everyone who has helped us in Rome: our project is much the better for their support.
At our home institutions, Francesca Tinti’s work on this volume constitutes part of the activities
conducted by the research group IT751–13, funded by the Basque Government, and the Unidad de
Formación e Investigación UFI11/02 of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. Rory Naismith
completed this project during the tenure of a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellowship, and
the latter stages of a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge, and while working as a
Mellon Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. Finally, the British Academy Small Research
Grant (which began the entire process) has provided essential material support throughout the project.
This grant also permitted us to commission an Italian translation of our original English text by Alessio
Fiore.
We are also grateful to a number of friends and colleagues who have read and commented on drafts
of our work, or provided advice on specific questions pertaining to the research. Hugh Pagan and Stewart
Lyon shared with us unpublished work on the coinages of Æthelstan and Edmund, and read sections of
both the introduction and the catalogue. Peter Ilisch advised us on the Bavarian and Lotharingian coins.
Henry Hurst and Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani commented on the archaeological context of the hoard,
and Pauline Stafford and Chris Wickham on its historical implications. Alessia Rovelli kindly read both
the English original text and the Italian translation and provided valuable comments. Lucia Travaini
has also advised on specific points in the translation. Michelle Brown, David Ganz, Ildar Garipzanov,
Mark Handley, Jane Kershaw, Elisabeth Okasha, Gale Owen-Crocker, Jo Story and Gabor Thomas all
discussed the two hooked tags from the hoard and their inscription. Lacey Wallace produced the maps in
expert fashion. We are also grateful for the questions and comments of audiences in Cambridge, Dublin,
Harrogate, Manchester, Reading and Oxford to whom we presented papers based on this research.

Rory Naismith Francesca Tinti
Department of History, Departmento de Historia Medieval, Moderna
King’s College London, UK y de América, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science
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