Clockwise from top left: Silver penny of Offa, Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia (front and back); silver coin of Cynethryth, Anglo-Saxon queen of Mercia (front and back); silver penny of Alfred the Great, ...
Ida of Bernicia is remembered as the first Anglo-Saxon king of the northern kingdom of Bernicia, ruling from about 547 until his death in 559. He did not inherit a peaceful realm, but seized territory ...