Talk:monetarius

Abbreviations

What I just added seems to be the common view: that the MO, M-O or M‾O, and MONETA in the allcaps text on the reverse of medieval coins are all abbreviations of some form of monetarius and describe the job of the minters whose names appears with them. In his "Moneta and Mon on Anglo-Saxon Coins" that appeared in the 1962 British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 27–42, however, Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart made extremely cogent and well supported arguments that the inscriptions just meant moneta ("coin" and/or "coin die") or moneta on (combining Latin and English). Instead of reading the inscription +ÆÐELꝤERD MO LVND as "Aethelweard Moneyer at/of London", he'd read it as "Coin [Made by] Aethelweard [at] London" and +ÆÐELꝤERD M-O LVND as "Coin [Made by] Athelweard at London". It makes sense, especially for moneta, but scholars don't seem to have followed him (example) so I wonder what he missed or got wrong in his article. — LlywelynII 17:53, 27 May 2023 (UTC)