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Excerpt from The Coins of the Danish Kings of Ireland: Hiberno-Danish Series Various conjectures have been offered as to how these coins came to be minted in Ireland; no evidence however appears of these Kings having possessed any part of Ireland, or of their having received any tribute from it, a circumstance particularly improbable during the reign of Ethelred. The supposition that part of the contributions levied by the Danes might have been sent to Dublin and there minted by moneyers of Ethelred, is more probable, but has still nothing more than conjecture to support it; whilst the probability of this supposition is greatly weakened by the coins of Cnut bearing the name of Dublin, to which the same reasoning could not possibly be applied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.