__NOTOC__ Wigmund was a medieval

Archbishop of York The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers th ...

, who was consecrated in 837 and died in 854.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 224

Coinage

During the ninth century, both kings of Northumbria and archbishops of York minted

styca The styca (; . ''stycas'') was a small coin minted in pre-Viking Northumbria, originally in base silver and subsequently in a copper alloy. Production began in the 790s and continued until the 850s, though the coin remained in circulation until the ...

coinage. Historian Stewart Lyon estimated that Wigmund produced coinage from between 837 to 846. The coins issued by Wigmund were minted by a number of moneyers, including Aethelweard, Hunlaf and Coenred. Unique and separate from the copper-alloy, mass-produced stycas, is a gold solidus, produced by Wigmund potentially as an ecclesiastical gift.

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* 854 deaths Archbishops of York 9th-century archbishops Year of birth unknown {{ArchbishopofYork-stub