Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: HAMP1878
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Date from: Circa AD 810
Date to: AD 821
Quantity: 1
Diameter: 20 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 1985
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Coenwulf of Mercia
Mint or issue place: Rochester
Category: Coin of the kings of Mercia 8th-9th centuries
Obverse inscription: COENUULF REX M
Reverse description: Small cross pattee with a wedge at the end of each limb and out-turned crescent in each angle.
Reverse inscription: EALHSTAN MONETA
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SU6049
Four figure Latitude: 51.237036
Four figure longitude: -1.141943
1:25K map: SU6049
1:10K map: SU64NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 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 | 60 | no. 357 (B.M.C 71) |