Rights Holder: York Museums Trust
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Unique ID: YORYM-2301F2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1102
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 1.3 g
Diameter: 16.7 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st December 2008
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry I of England
Category: Coin of Norman and Early Plantagenet England 1066-1180
Obverse description: Crowned bust left holding sceptre.
Obverse inscription: HENRI REX
Reverse description: Cross fleury with annulet centre.
Reverse inscription: uncertain
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
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. | 1994 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume I. Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272 | London | Spink and Son Ltd | p196 | poss. 858 |