Styca Pubblico Deposited
This coin occurs only in the is- sues for Northumberland, and it appears to begin with the reign of Eegfrith (670-685), and concludes with the year 875, when the Danish King Halfden conquered the territory.
The name is supposed to be derived from the Saxon word sticce, a minute part, two Stycas being equal to one Farthing. The composition of the coins was of a mixed metal; in one hundred parts there were sixty to seventy of copper, twenty to twenty-five of zinc, six to eleven of silver, and traces of gold, lead, and tin.
The Stycas usually have crosses with pellets in the angles on both obverse and reverse; the name of the ruler and moneyer is generally added.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)