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34:2 K. CYKIL LOCKETT.
until his death in 832, and is said to have been a native
of Kent. His penny [PL XVII. 8], in the Dorset
find, has on the reverse DRVR CITS (Dorovernia
Civitas) in two lines across the field, and SWEF
HEARD MONET round it, and is identical in type
with Baldred's penny (Hks., fig. 57) by the moneyer
DIORMOD. The latter, Hawkins says, 'is the earliest
known coin with name of the Canterbury mint '. It
is clear that it and Wulfred's penny were contemporary.
The introduction of the name of Dorovernia
and the tonsured head indicates a scholarly influence,
and the suggestion that it was the archbishop who was
the inventor, and that the reverse of Baldred's coin
was copied from Wulfred's and not vice versa, should
not be dismissed lightly. 2
Perhaps also Ecgbeorht,
at a later date, was indebted to the archbishop for the
prototype of his monogram coinage.
In fixing a date for the burial of the hoard, the
scanty particulars we have relating to this period of
our history make it difficult to assign one with
certainty.
As the find contains as many as three pennies of
Coenwulf, and on the other hand none of Ceolwulf I or
Beornwulf, it would lead to the assumption that it
was deposited prior to or about the date of Coenwulf 's
death (A.D. 822). Sir Henry Howorth, however, in
2 Reference to Rud, PI. xiii. 3 (Wulfred), and Rud, PL xiii. 4
(uncertain).
Hks., fig. 144 (Wulfred), and Rud., PI. xiii. 3 (uncertain), prove
that the pennies with Wulfred's name were struck before the Sede
Vacante series. It is obvious that the latter were copies from the
former, as to suggest the contrary necessitates the impossible proposition
that the money ers on their own responsibility introduced
at Canterbury the innovation of coins with the archbishop's bust.