Editing Edmund the Martyr (section)

==Memorial coinage==
[[File:King Edmund coin (British Museum).jpg|thumb|alt=photograph of a St Edmund coin|A St Edmund memorial [[penny]] ([[British Museum]])]]
Following the death of the Danish [[Guthrum]], king of East Anglia, in around 890,{{refn|1=Guthrum who ruled East Anglia under the [[Christian name|baptismal name]] of Æthelstan.{{sfn|Costambeys|2008}}|group=note}} the same moneyers who had minted his coins started to produce money in commemoration of Edmund.{{sfn|Young|2018|p=72}} The coins, whose design was based upon those produced during Edmund's reign, provide the earliest evidence that he was venerated as a saint.{{sfn|Young|2018|pp=69, 72}}{{sfn|Grierson|Blackburn|1986|p=305}} All the [[Penny|pennies]] and (more rarely) [[History_of_the_halfpenny#Early_halfpennies|half-pennies]] that were produced read ''SCE EADMVND REX''—'O St Edmund the king!'. Some of them have a [[Legend (numismatics)|legend]] that provides evidence that the Vikings experimented with their initial design.{{sfn|Grierson|Blackburn|1986|p=320}}

The St Edmund memorial coins were minted in great quantities by a group of more than 70 moneyers, many of whom appear to have originated from continental Europe; over 1800 specimens were found when the [[Cuerdale Hoard]] was discovered in [[Lancashire]] in 1840.{{sfn|Grierson|Blackburn|1986|p=319}} The coins were widely used within the [[Danelaw]]. They have mainly been found in the east of England, but the exact location of any of the mints they came from is not known with certainty, although scholars have assumed that they were made in East Anglia.{{sfn|Grierson|Blackburn|1986|pp=319{{ndash}}320}}