Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-46EC57
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval penny of Aethelstan (924-39), Crowned bust type, B.M.C. viii. Measures 21mm, weighs 0.81g, slight wear, two joining fragments of about half the coin.
Obverse: Crowned bust right
+ÆÐ[ELSTAN R]EX
Reverse: Small cross pattée
+BO[...MON]ETA
Moneyer: BO...... or possibly RO......
Date: 924-939
Reference: North 673
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 924
Date to: Exactly AD 939
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.81 g
Diameter: 21 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 24th November 2011 - Thursday 29th March 2012
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Other reference: Salisbury Museum Entry Form no.3831
Primary material: Silver
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Athelstan of England
Category: Coin of the kings of All England 924/5-1066
Type: N 673 (Bust Crowned, without mint)
Obverse description: Crowned bust right
Obverse inscription: +ÆÐ[ELSTAN R]EX
Reverse description: Small cross pattée
Reverse inscription: +BO[...MON]ETA
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 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 | 673 |