Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-44C0B2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1553
Date to: Circa AD 1554
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.85 g
Diameter: 24 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st April 2012
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Primary material: Silver
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Groat (silver)
Ruler/issuer: Mary I of England
Mint or issue place: The Tower of London
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Groat: Mary, 1553-1554 (N 1960)
Obverse description: Crowned bust left
Obverse inscription: oMARIAo pomegranate oDoGoANGoFRAoZoHIBoREGI’
Reverse description: Long cross fourchée over shield of arms
Reverse inscription: VERITA S TEM PORIS FILIA
Die axis measurement: 5 o'clock
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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