What Could Your Coins Buy During Saxon Times?

[@Patrick3183]

The coins you are displaying are incredible quality. A blessing they lasted so well for so long

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thank you

[@georgeiii2998]

Unrelated, sorry, but is your profile picture a Gillray caricature?

[@worldnumismaticnews]

Very cool video. It's not only interesting to see how the values might compare to what we are familiar with today. But, also to see what people valued back then. How society actually worked.

[@Patrick3183]

Within 25 years £250k raised from the land. Absolutely mindbogglingly incredible. And not even “all” of modern England was under native rule. To be able to raise that amount meant that amount had to have been there in the first place … and still Enough left over not to sink the people/economy/kingdom… England must have been EXTREMELY rich and prosperous, no wonder the Vikings coveted it so. Amazing amazing amazing.

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Fascinating video! I found it surprisingly hard to find enough information on prices for goods on ancient rome to come up with a reasonable "everyday shopping cart" for a Roman, as price evidence is quite disperse and out of any unified context. You did a great job contextualizing all of the prices in this presentation. Keep it up, Luke :)

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks so much matey 😊

[@scottessery100]

fantastic videos. as a detectorist who hopes to find sceats and groats your videos are wonderful

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks Scotty! Good luck on your searches 😊

[@AndrejBk]

there is a record from Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, who visited Praha around 965, that for a denar you coud buy enough grain for a month

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Very interesting Andrej 😊

[@jaif7327]

a "denar" is 2.75g of pure silver right?

[@AndrejBk]

@@jaif7327 at that time in central Europe weight was roughly 1.5 g

[@jeffreymontgomery4091]

Awesome video as always! I definitely think and agree this was one of the most fascinating videos, I've always thought of who held and then spent the numismatic pieces I have acquired over the last few years. Living in the US our history obviously isn't as old as England or rather the UK or mainland Europe but our history stems from them in various ways. I've always been a history buff and my fascination with numismatics parallels and intersects history, rather saturates history, is inseparable and forever linked. What a fascinating time we live in to be able to look back and ponder such things....

[@AlbertD711]

I'm with you, very glad I live in current times.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Think we take for granted sometimes how fortunate we all are 😊

[@danielroy8232]

when you say the weight of the silver for the weregild is that in pure silver or stirling silver?

[@edhart8184]

Great informative video Luke a medieval one would be really good too.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks Ed!

[@sam7687-i9b]

What a great topic for a video very interesting 👍👍. More please . Really enjoyed that 😊👍

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks Sam ☺️

[@lorenzodemedici2299]

In 1493, while serving for Spain, the Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus brought corn back to Europe from his first voyage to the Caribbean.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Interesting, thanks for the added information 😊

[@jamesmortimer4405]

Corn in British English refers to any type of grain crop, rather than specifically maize, which was what came back after Columbus!

[@erikbrantner4295]

I would love to see a video done on what the first large cents could buy during this time and what some colonial and silver coins issued before and during this time as well as what a half cent was worth back then... I always wanted to know what common goods could be bought in this era! It would be a great idea and a great video to visit early American!!! I

[@chezburger1781]

his thing is hammered, id imagine someone else would do that us what can money buy idea.

[@erikbrantner4295]

@@chezburger1781 ???

[@chezburger1781]

@@erikbrantner4295 his channel is based around hammered english coins, american is very out of style and is more suited for other youtubers.

[@VintageParagonUk]

fascinating video, I never realised how expensive things were back then! those Vikings got a great deal 😂

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks buddy! They really did 😅

[@mickdavis8521]

Very interesting Luke, thanks for the info 😃👍

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks Mick 😊

[@bertallsort694]

Great episode Luke! Thanks for that, very entertaining, I done some research into cost of living during Henry 3rd reign, and found it amazing, it gives an appreciation to your hammered coins when you find them👍👍👍

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks Bert mate ☺️

[@marktownsend2198]

I'm sorry but I don't see the website link in the description. I'd really like to see more about the prices.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Here you go mark, I didn’t press save. Now updated regia.org/

[@marktownsend2198]

@@TheHammeredCorner oh thank you very much.

[@Medieval_Digger]

Nice video! I just found some Saxon sceats. I always wondered what you could buy with those… 😎👍🍀

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks matey! Congrats on the finds too 😊👍🏼

[@e4ts1mmy]

Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks mate 😊

[@edwardjones9098]

I was wandering if you could help me identify a coin I found while metal detecting. I have searched everywhere but can't find a direct match as the coin is bad condition however it is silver and by best guess is that it is a Charles II coin. I can send you pictures if you are interested.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Of course, send me a message here ☺️ facebook.com/Mundyscoins/

[@gordongrant408]

Great vid Luke.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks Gordon as always mate 😊

[@bannedaccount540]

What is the exchange rate to modern currency based on? Because it can't be precious metal content, a kilo of silver costs roughly £620 in today's money

[@danielt879]

Great video 😀

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks mate 😊

[@EroticOnion23]

Wasn't a pence/penny ~1.7g of silver?...so 60s would be 60 x 12 x 1.7 = 1224g silver?...🤔 Also, I read that during the contemporary time of Charlemagne a pence/penny (~1.7g silver) could buy you "12x 2-pound loaves of bread, a sheep would be five pence, ten pence for a pig, twenty for a cow and thirty for an ox", so there's some discrepancy here (maybe by location?)...🤔

[@Mike_of_the_Sonora]

An Amazing video i hope you do more like this my friend!

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Thanks mate 😊

[@theblackprince5898]

Coins from the kingdoms of England like kingdom of York and Northumbria is amazing history

[@TheHammeredCorner]

Totally agree 😊

[@allenschmitz9644]

Pound of 'flesh' comes into context.

[@allenschmitz9644]

'Free range' humans were like free money to the Guilds.

[@WhyX11]

I find it highly misleading to compare over time due to fact the monetary system was quite different then. Its hard to even compare the 1700s with a more modern system.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

No comparison, only the value of what would have been today using a inflation calculator.

[@samy7013]

@@TheHammeredCorner : The inflation calculator seems to value each gram of silver in today’s money at ~£12.90/g which seems to overvalue the silver by a factor of nearly 20x. Something seems off to me.

[@TheHammeredCorner]

@@samy7013 It isn’t relative to the price of silver, but how much such a coin would have been worth rather than intrinsically. Hope this clears things up.