Hiberno-Norse Phase III, Class D - Bust with Hand behind Head, Type 1 - Long Cross with two hands. Echmarcach mac Ragnaill. The Old Currency Exchange, Dublin, Ireland.

Irish Coin Daily: Hiberno-Norse Silver Penny, Phase III, Class D (Bust with Hand behind Head), Type 1 – Long Cross with two hands

Date: c. 1035-1060 Description: Hiberno-Norse coinage, silver penny, Phase III, Class D (Bust with Hand behind Head), Long Cross with two hands on reverse. Badly blundered legends on both obverse and reverse – undecipherable. Obverse: Stylised bust of Ethelred II, imitating earlier Phase I types. Bust with Hand behind Head. Legend: Badly blundered. Reverse: Long…