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COIN
Unique ID: ESS-3FE447
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval silver coin: damaged and incomplete halfpenny of Henry VII
Notes:
Recorded via email: identification from finders photographs
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1485
Date to: Circa AD 1509
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 25th September 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Find recorded via email
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Halfpenny
Ruler/issuer: Henry VII of England
Category: English coin Late Medieval 1377 - 1489
Type: Halfpenny: Henry VII, not further defined (N 1732 - 1738)
Obverse description: Single arched crowned bust, facing
Obverse inscription: illegible
Reverse description: Cross with three pellets in each quadrant
Reverse inscription: illegible
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Braintree (District)
Parish or ward: Castle Hedingham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL7834
Four figure Latitude: 51.975954
Four figure longitude: 0.59018
1:25K map: TL7834
1:10K map: TL73SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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