Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-967E54
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1560
Date to: Circa AD 1561
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.92 g
Diameter: 20 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2011 - Tuesday 27th September 2011
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Other reference: Salisbury Museum Entry Form No. 3763
Primary material: Silver
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Half groat
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Mint or issue place: The Tower of London
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Halfgroat: Elizabeth I, 1558-1561 (N 1987)
Obverse description: Crowned bust left
Obverse inscription: ELIZABETH:D’.G’.ANG[ ]RA·ET·HIB’.REGINA
Reverse description: Shield of arms below long cross fourchée
Reverse inscription: POSVI DEV’.AD IVTORE M’. MEV’.
Initial mark: Martlet
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
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 | 1987 |