Notes & Queries Archive
QUERY1850

Welsh Money

By J. C. WITTON.

I have never seen in any work on coins the slightest allusion to the money of the native princes of Wales before the subjugation of their country by Edward I. Is any such in existence? and, if not, how is its disappearance to be accounted for? I read that Athelstan imposed on the Welsh an annual tribute *in money*, which was paid for many years. Query, In what sort of coin?

Topics: Coins, Welsh History, Tribute

Locations: Wales