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Medieval English Coins – The Coins of Æthelred the Unready

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek …..   Æthelred II became King of England on March 18, 978 after the murder of his half-brother Edward, known as Edward the Martyr. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says of the murder of King Edward that “No worse deed than this was ever done by the English nation since they […]

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