Can Anyone Identify This Coin Please.

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Not my area but I'm sure someone over at the Ancient/Medieval coin section will be able to help. I'm going move the thread there.

Hi thanks for looking. My initial thoughts was it was a canute or Edward the confessor short cross but I can't match that up with the lettering on the front. Got me really stumped.

I've searched both volumes of jj north's hammered coins with no luck. When you see the coin in your hand you can see the portrait slightly better. Whoever it is they are wearing a cap with tassles on it similar to styles seen on cnut, hrdacnut, Harold 1st and Edward the confessor that's what pushed me in the anglo saxon direction. I can't help but wonder whether it's some lesser king or lord from mercia, northumbria or wessex who was minting his own coins in the styles of others or perhaps a contemporary viking imitation.

Usually the rear of most coins show the mint town and moneyers name. I assumed the llul was a blundered spelling or abbreviation for London which sometimes shows up as lvnd or lvn on some later coins from the Norman period. The C letter could be a G giving a name like Godric but there's too many letters missing and it's hard to speculate and fill in the blanks. Usually a v is a u letter and the p looking letter is an R on these old coins.

Yes possibly a poor contemporary copy of its day that someone may have been passing off as genuine currency of one of the rulers of that period.That's what I am leaning towards unless someone can figure it out. The vikings where known for counterfeiting saxon currency and not doing a good job of it either. I had been using that below to try decipher the letters.

Sorry, been off-line for a few days. The coin is a French denier, Abbots/Priory of Souvigny, 1080 - 1213. Obv: SCS MAIOLVS, facing bust of St. Maieur/Mayeul, crozier right; Rev: + SILVINIACO, plain short cross.