Image: Penny (Triqueta and Raven Banner) of Amlaib Cuaran
Description: A penny minted at en:York in the reign of en:Amlaíb Cuarán (Anlaf Sihtricson). Obverse shows a trefoil ornament (triquetra), and the reverse a triangular pennon (raven banner). Obverse legend read as "ANLAF CVNVNC". Weight 17.3 grains, 0.8 fine. original caption (Grueber p. 20): Anlaf (Quaran), A.D. 940-944 and 948-952? Obv. +.ANL.A.F CVNVNC: Trefoil ornament of three bucklers? Rev. + FA.R.M.A.N.MONET.A. Triangular pennon, fringed, and bearing cross, AR.8.Wt.17.3
Title: Penny (Triqueta and Raven Banner) of Amlaib Cuaran
Credit: Grueber, Herbert Appold (1846-1927), Handbook of the coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum. London/Oxford: British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals & the Clarendon Press, 1899. Plate IV, image number 116. Available online at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/handbookofcoinso00brituoft
Author: There is no person credited for images contained the the work. The introduction thanks the Clarendon Press for the production of these en:collotypes. The British Library Catalogue record for this work does not specify any photographer either, and the image is believed to be anonymous under UK law, and old enough to be in the public domain on that basis. Publication was in 1899, and accordingly the image is also public domain under US law.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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