Talk:History of the English penny (c. 600 – 1066)

Spelling ??

• Reginald - 12349 occurrences - probably correct.
• Regnald - 1 occurrence - probably wrong. Tabletop (talk) 06:03, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

This is correct. It is a variant spelling of Ragnall ua Ímair. I have been told by a historian that this article was created by an academic expert, but unfortunately it is almost completely unreferenced. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:52, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Anglo-Saxon pound

If anyone can help, please give Anglo-Saxon pound some love as it now just a stub after I removed a large chunk of off-topic material about silver pennies (forking this article, badly) and irrelevant post-Conquest info. I am particularly worried the Britannica citation which says that a pound of silver was divided into 240 'sterlings' – which are totally without mention here. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:03, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

I do not think that Anglo-Saxon pound should have an article as it was just a unit of account. I will propose changing the article to a redirect. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:24, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Value of 1 penny?

Re: "perhaps something in the region of £10–£30 in modern currency". This key phrase is unsourced and (imho) seems greatly inflated, since a 1.5g silver penny should be worth around 1.5g x US$23/ozt/(31.1g/ozt) ~ US$1.11 today. JdelaF (talk) 11:31, 11 April 2023 (UTC) JdelaF (talk) 11:31, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

It is what a penny would buy which is relevant, not the value of the silver. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:47, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Exactly. JdelaF appears to be confusing price with value. Otherwise, it is worth something in the region of £70,000 today.

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