medalet

The medalet itself is a gold coin, set in a loop mount so that it could be worn as jewellery.

The medalet itself is the earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon coin.

The medalet is part of the only late-6th or early-7th century find of gold jewellery in a grave in a churchyard.

The coin that formed the base of the medalet was most likely minted in England, probably at Canterbury.

Werner further speculates that the base of the cross on the medalet is meant to symbolize the hill at Golgotha.

An oval medalet produced by a roller die using a coin, token or medal as a planchet, usually a cent.

In later years Charles II only touched the medalet as he unsurprisingly disliked touching diseased people directly.

National Series Very Rare Medalet.

One of the items in the hoard, the Liudhard medalet, is the earliest surviving Anglo-Saxon coin.

The patriarchal, or double-barred cross had become a common symbol for the True Cross by the time of the striking of the medalet.

Wernher, Martin, The Liudhard Medalet, in Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 20, eds.

The Liudhard medalet is a gold Anglo-Saxon coin or small medal found some time before 1844 near St Martin's Church in Canterbury, England.

The medalet is the first northern European artistic work to display a patriarchal cross, and it is also the first securely datable item to use the circle crossing a cross.

The medalet was first revealed to the public on 25 April 1844 by Charles Roach Smith, who presented it along with other coins found with it, to a meeting of the Numismatic Society.

LONDON & SOUTHPORT' for non intoxicant wines, together with their trade card, & 1888 Melbourne International Exhibition gilded medalet. (4)

The whole collection, including the medalet, passed from Rolfe's collection to the collection of Joseph Mayer, and then passed to the Rolfe-Mayer collection in the City of Liverpool Public Museums.

An example of a medalet in the British Museum has a hand descending from a cloud towards four heads, with "He touched them" around the margin, and on the other side a rose and thistle, with "And they were healed."

The medalet, along with two other similar items, had been acquired by W. H. Rolfe, who later acquired five other items from the same hoard, and all eight items were published in the Society's Numismatic Chronicle in 1845.

The cure was usually more of a "laying on of hands" by the monarch and the Angel coin or medalet, etc., although touched by the monarch, was seen as a receipt or talisman of the potential of the monarch's healing power.

The Liudhard medalet, produced around 600AD in Anglo-Saxon England, is an isolated example, known from a single copy, of a Christian medal, featuring an inscription naming Liudhard (or "Saint Letard"), the first priest among the Anglo-Saxons, and most likely presented to converts.

A coin or "medalet", known as the Liudhard medalet, bearing his name was found in the 19th century in a grave in Canterbury, and is the earliest Anglo-Saxon coin, though it may not have been used as money in the normal way.

Liudhard does not appear to have made many converts among the Anglo-Saxons, and if not for the discovery of a gold coin, the Liudhard medalet, bearing the inscription Leudardus Eps (Eps is an abbreviation of Episcopus, the Latin word for bishop) his existence may have been doubted.