Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-0F7171
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1561
Date to: AD 1603
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.11 g
Diameter: 18.6 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st February 2008
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Threepence
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Threepence: Elizabeth I, 1561-1582 (N 1998)
Obverse description: (Crowned bust left) with a rose behind the head.
Obverse inscription: ( )D G ANG FR( )
Reverse description: Square shield on long cross fourchee dividing the legend. Date (unclear) above the shield.
Reverse inscription: ( )VI DEV( )REM M( )
Initial mark: Unclear
Die axis measurement: 9 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SP1999
Four figure Latitude: 52.588475
Four figure longitude: -1.720984
1:25K map: SP1999
1:10K map: SP19NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1991 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2. Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662 | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 1998 |