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HOAKD OF NINE ANGLO-SAXON PENNIES. 341
simple or compound form are believed to have been
struck there.
Sir H. H. Howorth is in doubt as to whether
Beagmund was a moneyer of Canterbury or Rochester
(Num. Chron., as above), but the discovery of the coin
under discussion may settle the point that he worked
at Canterbury, and perhaps at Rochester as well.
BEAGMUND occurs on two other types of Ecgbeorht,
viz., B. M. Cat., type XIII. with a cross potent on
either side (also used by the moneyer Ethelmod), and
B. M. Cat., type XIV, with interlaced A's on obverse,
and a cross potent on reverse (unique). BEAGMUND does
not appear to have struck any pennies for Ecgbeorht
with the bust, and he is not among the moiieyers who
struck the monogram type, which Sir H. Howorth
considers was Ecgbeorht's latest issue. This is remark-
able inasmuch as Beagmund
struck no less than six
different types for Ecgbeorht's son and successor,
^Ethelwulf. Beagmund did not coin for any of
Ecgbeorht's contemporaries in Mercia or Kent.
The two remaining coins of the hoard are the
WULFEED and so-called Sede Vacante pennies (ton-
sured head type), both of which are by the moneyer
SWEFHEAED, to whom reference has already been made.
Mr. Lawrence has suggested that the issue of so-
called Sede Vacante coins took place not later than
A.D. 825, when Ecgbeorht in August of 825 defeated
Beornwulf of Mercia at the battle of Ellandune
and immediately (or on the authority of Roger of
Wendover in A.D. 827) followed up his victory by
driving Baldred from Kent.
Wulfred was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury
on the death of Athelheard in 805, and held the see