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ANARCHY IN NORMAN ENGLAND?

he Norman Conquest of Anglo-Saxon England is notably absent from the currency of the period. This is unsurprising given that William I inherited one of the best controlled and managed currencies in Europe. One of his only acts, other than to alter the inscription and portrait to his own, was to centralise the production of the dies used to strike the coins. However, two generations later

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