The Laws of Athens

Athelstan decreed that there could only be one coinage, and all coins had to be minted in a town. The law actually read, an munet su over el theas cunius on welda and non man munatia. And if a moneyer produced coins that were base or lacked the required amount of silver, his hand could be cut off. But these laws ensured a steady increase in the number of mints throughout the nine hundreds. This suggests that a unified england and peace with the danes in the south provided a degree of stability. As i noted earlier, all of that viking influence on the ground was fundamentally changing the languagethere.