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840 K. CYRIL LOCKETT.
seen that the coin in the hoard differs from that
illustrated in Rud., PL xxvii. 1, by the legend on
the obverse commencing
behind the bust instead of
beneath it.
DYNYN also struck pennies with bust on the obverse,
and four crescents turned outwardly on the reverse.
The cross-potent reverse design was also used by the
moneyers Ethelmod and Beagmund on Ecgbeorht's
pennies without bust.
OBA, the moneyer of the penny illustrated on PL
XVII. 7, issued another type for Ecgbeorht, which had
the cross patte'e design both on the obverse and reverse,
and his name is also in the list of known moneyers of
the Canterbury monogram reverse, but none of his coins
are published with bust but without monogram. As
before stated he was a moneyer for Coenwulf, Ceolwulf,
and Baldred.
The last of Ecgbeorht's pennies in the hoard is that
of BEAGMUND [PI. XVII. e]. It is a remarkable coin,
as the reverse type is an entirely new device, which
may have some special religious significance.
It is
a cross potent of three limbs or '
tribrach potent the
',
upper limb of the cross being substituted for a pellet.
[The Ecgbeorht Penny illustrated in Num. Chron.
Series 4, vol. VIII, PL xvi. 13, is also an example of
the intentional omission of the upper limb of the
cross.]
The view put forward by the late Sir John Evans
that the tribrach, symbolical of the Trinity and
derived from the Archbishop's pall or pallium, was
used to denote coins struck at the Canterbury mint,
is now generally accepted by numismatists. Those of
Ecgbeorht's coins that have the tribrach either in