Lexicographical Neighbors of Sceattas
Literary usage of Sceattas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1886)
"The great majority of the pieces composing the hoards consisted of what we
ordinarily call sceattas, and which we believe to have been struck in this ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1827)
"On the coins attributed to Ethelbert of Kent, and on several of the other sceattas,
we find a figure, which, on account of the resemblance of part of it to ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Some few of the sceattas 'bear the names of known sovereigns, ... A great majority
of these sceattas have one or more crosses upon the field, and this fact ..."
4. The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne, in Kent by Charles Roach Smith (1850)
"6 of our plate is one of those sceattas which, on account of the cross and the bird
... No doubt the chief circulation was in the smaller coin, or sceattas ..."
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