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Why was Anglo-Saxon worth fighting for?
- Coinage
- Value of money
- Based on
'Gold
Standard'
- Checked by King or
Queen
- Based on
'Gold
Standard'
- License mints in
order to control
distribution and
value
- Slaves produce money
- Treated harshly if
they created
anything illegal
- Treated harshly if
they created
anything illegal
- Coin designed in a
way so it was
difficult to copy
- E.g. Coin
clipping
- E.g. Coin
clipping
- Recalled every 4 years
- Old money is burnt and becomes illegal
- Stops forgery
- Dies (patterns on
coins) changed
every 4 years
- Old money is burnt and becomes illegal
- Value of money
- Organised
- Only country that could
re-call coins every 4 years
- Effective admin
- Gov.t were thorough
and organised for that
period
- Only country that could
re-call coins every 4 years
- Good trade links with
other countries
- Happy to trade with English
traders as they knew that the
amounts the coins were worth
were correct
- Benefitted world trade and foreign
trade greatly
- Internal and
external trade grew
- Benefitted world trade and foreign
trade greatly
- Happy to trade with English
traders as they knew that the
amounts the coins were worth
were correct
- Silver came from Dartmoor
- Gold came from
South Wales
- Vast amounts of farmland
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