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[–] ChicoSuave 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Marsden tells Live Science that these mistakes may not have mattered to the item’s creators, who probably weren’t trying to create an exact replica.

They were trying their best!

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What I think is interesting is that this happened only a century after Britain stopped being a province of Rome. That's how quickly Latin was forgotten.

[–] teft 2 points 2 days ago

They didn’t have liturgical latin to lean on at the time since they were pagans. Kind of makes sense they wouldn’t keep speaking a foreign tongue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

it was made by the group sometimes known as the Anglo-Saxons.

... Are they called something else now? I'm more confused by this than the coin, tbh.

[–] comador 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Battle of 1066 aka Battle of Hastings was basically the beginning of what ultimately destroyed the tribal kingship of Anglo-Saxon England and unified them under a Norman rule.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

[–] ThePantser 0 points 3 days ago

So they are Normals? Just Normal English.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 3 days ago

Well they weren't a unified group.