Why was Anglo-Saxon worth fighting for?

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

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