 More importantly, only minuscule numbers of the type survive from more northerly mints such as Lincoln and York which, in the rest of the period, were some of the most productive in the kingdom.It is possible that the Second Hand type represents a continuation of the First Hand type, which may have run on rather longer than six years as part of a mechanism that did envisage changes of type, but not necessarily on a strict sexennial basis.The late Anglo-Saxon coinage is best understood for the period c. 990 – c. 1030 thanks to the discovery of many tens of thousands of coins in hoards from Scandinavia.