The Mint at Corbridge

CORBRIDGE IS A VILLAGE in Northumberland on the River Tyne, population in the 2011 census 3672, sixteen miles west (upstream) of Newcastle. It was the Roman garrison town of Corstopitum, which is still a major tourist attraction, and the site of the 1964 Corbridge Hoard of Roman armor, weapons and personal items.

However, Corbridge’s emergence as a mint had nothing to do with the Romans, but with the period of English history known as The Anarchy. Henry I’s only legitimate son, William the Atheling, was drowned on 25 November 1120 in the wreck of la Blanche-Nef