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lây lan đến vương quốc láng giềng trong Anh một minh chứng như thế nào "tốt tiền có thể lái xe ra xấu" trong những hoàn cảnh thích hợp. Mặc dù các vương quốc khác nhau (bao gồm cả các bộ phận của vùng Đông Bắc trong một thời gian dưới sự cai trị Viking) | 24 A HISTORY OF MONEY spread to neighbouring kingdoms within England an illustration of how good money can drive out bad in appropriate circumstances. Although the various kingdoms including the parts of the North East which were for a time under Viking rule had their own coinages they seem to have been of much the same weight and standard. There is little evidence of whether there was a formal attempt at anything approaching a monetary union before the political union largely achieved by Alfred the Great and finally consummated in 959 when Edwy the last independent king died and Eadgar became the first king of a United England. In 973 Eadgar introduced a centrally controlled system of coinage. Although coins were struck at as many as eighty mint towns control of the dies from which the coins were struck was centralised. Each coin bore the name of the responsible moneyer and of the mint town. The design on the coins was changed every six years. A wealth of historic information can be deduced from the study of these coins and their inscriptions. It was a classic period of coinage they were produced in quantity under Aethelred II 978-1016 to pay the Danegeld and the English system of coinage spread to Scandinavia to Viking occupied Ireland and for a time to Bohemia. A high proportion of the English coins of the late Anglo-Saxon period still existing today were discovered in Scandinavian hoards. The Danish rulers of England Cnut 1016-35 and Harthacnut 1035-42 continued the system with the same Anglo-Saxon moniers. After the Conquest William I was quick to appoint his Norman followers to these and other offices of profit but the system as such continued virtually unchanged. It was after all the best in Europe. It ensured that the responsibility for a below weight coin could be traced to the moneyer and explains why England was exceptional in that the weight standard 22.5 grains of fine silver was not only still intact in 1066 but persisted for a further couple of .