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styca Numism.|ˈstaɪkə|
Also 8 stica, sticca, 9 stika, styka.
[Assumed sing. from ONorthumb. stycas, dial. pl. of OE. stycce str. neut. (WS. pl. styccu) piece (of money): see stitch n.2
The sense ‘piece of money’ occurs only in the following passage, where it is applied to the ‘widow's mite’. The OE. word was certainly never the distinctive name of a coin.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xii. 42 An widua ðorfend sende tuoᵹe stycas þ̶ is feorðung penniᵹes.]
The name given in modern times to a small copper coin current in Northumbria in the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries. The extant specimens weigh about 17 grains.
1705Fountaine in Hickes Thesaurus II. Diss. 164 Quod Styc vel Styca ab antiquis Anglis vocabatur. 1745Leake Engl. Money (ed. 2) 14 They [Saxons] had Copper Stycas also, smaller than the Penny, having the King's Name on one Side [etc.]. 1753Scots Mag. Apr. 200/2 Two small silver Saxon coins of a sort called Sticaes. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 284 Mr. Thoresby says in relation to the Sticas, namely, that the three in his collection were all that were known at Oxford. 1778Engl. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Rippon, A considerable number of Saxon coins were found here anno 1695, particularly the brass ones, called sticcas, eight whereof made a penny. 1844Lingard Anglo-Saxon Ch. (1858) II. App. O. 388 The styca was the one-fourth of a penny. 1845Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. xiii. 123 Mr. Donaldson Selby exhibited two Saxon Styca. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. 521 By far the greater number are stykas of Eadgar. 1915Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. 201 The small disc referred to above..is not a styca—for that it is too thick; possibly it has been a Roman minim. |