Replicas of five medieval coins
Medieval coin replicas bring pupils closer to history! Let the pupils experiment with the medieval coins and think together with them about what you could buy for one or other coin value in the Middle Ages. The pupils will certainly find this very entertaining! You might even want to recreate a medieval market with the pupils and find out what was on offer at the markets back then! In this way, the pupils could develop a theater play in which the historical coins take on a leading role. Which heads adorned which coin at which time ... it is certainly very exciting for the pupils in history lessons to pursue this question too.
- Coin diameter: approx. 1.5 to 2.5 cm
- Coin replicas made of pewter with antique patina
- Includes a small cotton bag for storage
- Coins:
Edward I - Groat
William I - Penny
King John - Penny
Henry VI - Halgroat
Edward 111 - Quarter Noble (gold)
Interesting facts about medieval coin replicas: The penny
The silver penny was probably introduced in inland England around 786 by King Offa of Mercia. Its name is derived from the Old English penig (plural: pene "as/pæne" as), formerly pening (penning/pending). This word has the same root as the German word Pfennig. The coins were similar in size and weight to the denarius, which was common on the mainland at the time. Until the 1970s, the penny was abbreviated to d. - derived from the Latin denarius.
Interesting, certainly for your students: The Anglo-Saxon silver pennies were also the currency in which the "Danegeld" was paid, a kind of protection money or plunder, which was paid to the then angry Vikings so that they would move on without plundering. It is estimated that the total weight of silver paid as danegeld between 990 and 1015 was a staggering 93 tons! At the time, this was equivalent to 250,000 English pounds. Converted today, that's around 1.8 billion euros! - From the reign of King Offa onwards, the penny was the only coin minted in England for around 500 years. The minting of gold coins by King Henry III and later King Edward III put an end to the penny dynasty.
Cloth bag with a medieval coin collection
A whole cloth bag filled with groats, two pennies, a Halgroat and a Quater Noble: What a vivid teaching aid! The replicas are true to the original and made of patinated pewter. The likenesses on the coins invite you to read the stories about the history behind the coinage of the medieval coins. The groat, for example, is the name for the silver four-pence piece that was minted as a coin in the United Kingdom until 1855. The first groats were minted in 1279 during the reign of Edward I.
An image of him can also be found on one of the coins. A similar coin was the North German groat, which was initially worth four (Meissen) pfennigs and later five schwaren. The Quater Noble was the first English gold coin to be produced in large quantities. They replaced the gold cent and the florin, which were not widely used during the reigns of King Henry III and King Edward III.
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