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Unique ID: SF-F492F7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Aethelred II, First Hand type, c.979-985 AD. As North, 1980: no. 766.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 979
Date to: Circa AD 985
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.5 g
Diameter: 20.43 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2013
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Æthelred the Unready
Mint or issue place: London
Category: Coin of the kings of All England 924/5-1066
Type: N 766 (First Hand) (Hild. B1)
Obverse description: Diademed bust right within an inner circle
Obverse inscription: +ÆÐELRED REX ANGLO[X?]
Reverse description: Hand of Providence issuing from clouds, the letters A W at the sides, all within an inner circle
Reverse inscription: +PVLFSTAN M-O LVND
Initial mark: Cross pattee
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
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