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Definition of Styca

Styca
Styca Sty"ca, n. [LL., fr. AS. stic, styc, stycge.] An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing. --S. M. Leake.

Meaning of Styca from wikipedia

- The styca (pronounced [ˈstykɑ]; pl. stycas) was a small coin minted in pre-Viking Northumbria, originally in base silver and subsequently in a copper alloy...
- Copper alloy of styca of King Osberht...
- few years later, but no further details are known of his murder. The new styca coinage, small br**** coins containing very little silver and much zinc,...
- copper alloy, these coins are commonly known as stycas, but the term is an antiquarian invention. Stycas remains in use throughout the kingdom until at...
- Copper alloy of styca of King Raedwulf...
- Silver styca of Aethelred...
- Eanred's reign sees the appearance of the styca, a new style of small coin which replaced the earlier sceat. These stycas were of low silver content, later coins...
- called Stycas. Reprinted from the Archaeologia, Vol. XXV". Archaeologia Aeliana. 3. Lyon, C S (1955). "A REAPPRAISAL OF THE SCEATTA AND STYCA COINAGE...
- word broþer is written with a ligatured ᛖ and ᚱ (er) on some Northumbrian stycas The Latin word meus is written as mæus with a ligatured ᛗ and ᚫ (mæ) on...
- Eanbald II Archbishop of York Copper styca of Eanbald II Appointed c. 796 Term ended c. 808 Predecessor Eanbald I Successor Wulfsige Orders Consecration...