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COIN
Unique ID: ESS-567957
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Iron Age silver coin: unit of Cunobelin. Romanised bust and griffin type, ABC 2909, similar examples include: SUR-8D4595, CCI-971656, CCI-42236, CCI-41225, and CCI-41056
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa AD 40
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.13 g
Diameter: 13.03 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 27th March 2011
Rally details.
This object was found at The Rodings, Essex
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Rally recording ref 214
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Unit (silver)
Ruler/issuer: Cunobelin
Tribe: Trinovantes
Geographic provenance: British Eastern
Allen Type: CUNO
Mint or issue place: Colchester |
Obverse description: Laureate bust, right
Obverse inscription: CVNOBI...
Reverse description: Griffin, left. Three pellets above tail.
Reverse inscription: CAMV
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Uttlesford (District)
Parish or ward: Margaret Roding (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL5910
Four figure Latitude: 51.766105
Four figure longitude: 0.302764
1:25K map: TL5910
1:10K map: TL51SE
Grid reference source: Recorded at a rally
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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