Ethelwulf
Britishnoun
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"My lord," he said, "this thing to which the witness swears is a gold piece of Ethelwulf of Wessex, by far the commonest and cheapest gold coin of the whole Anglo-Saxon period."
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Could she read the inscription on that coin now produced?—handing her the Ethelwulf.
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I had bought a common Anglo-Saxon coin, probably an Ethelwulf, valued at about twenty-two shillings, from the old Lichfield ploughman.
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Then the counsel for the Crown handed her again the genuine Wulfric, and asked her whether the letters upon it which she professed to have read were or were not similar to those of the Ethelwulf.
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I had shown the Ethelwulf, clipped in a particular fashion, to the lady whom I was engaged to marry.
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