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The Battle of Dunnichen

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Interesting story. A battle thatΒ  possibly led to the formation of the Scots under one ruler.

I found out an Interesting fact aboutΒ  Ecgfrith the defeated Anglo Saxon king. He probably introduced the earliest Penny coinage.

"Ecgfrith appears to have been the earliest Northumbrian king, and perhaps the earliest of theΒ Anglo-SaxonΒ rulers, to have issued the silverΒ penny, which became the mainstay of English coinage for centuries afterwards.

Coins had been produced by the Anglo-Saxons since the late 6th century, modelled on the coins being produced by theΒ MerovingiansΒ inΒ Francia, but these were rare, the most common being goldΒ scillingasΒ (shillings) orΒ thrymsas.

Ecgfrith's pennies, also known asΒ sceattas, were thick and cast in moulds, and were issued on a large scale"

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