sceat

sceat
/shat/, n.
a silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
Also, sceatta /shat"euh/.
[learned borrowing (18th century) of OE sceat, scaett; c. OS skat, OHG scaz (G Schatz) treasure, tribute. See SCAT5]

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