sceatt

m (-es/-as) 1. property, goods, wealth, treasure; 1a. of property which is paid as a price or a contribution, payment, price, gift, bribe, tax, tribute, money, goods, reward, money on mortgage, or paid in rent, rent, mortgage money; hé gebóhte mid his ágenum sceatte he bought with his own money; téoða \sceatt a tithe; 2. a piece of money, a coin; 2a. money of account, denarius, twentieth part of a shilling (Kent); [as the name of an English coin the word is found in the form scætt in the laws of Ethelbert of Kent. It is inferred from a comparison of passages in these that the value of the scætt in Kent was 1/20 of a shilling; the sceatt is also mentioned in Mercian law, where 30,000 sceatta is equivalent to 120 punda. This would give 250 sceatts to the pound. In the Northern Gospels dragmas decem is glossed by 'fíf sceattas téasíðum,' while the West Saxon version has 'tíen scillingas.' If the sums here given may be regarded as equal, the sceatt would be worth a West-Saxon penny, the value which it appears to have in the Mercian law. The coin then seems to be of different values in Kent in the more northern parts of England.];