Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-070A12
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
A modern replica, roughly copying a silver penny of Henry VI (AD 1422 to AD 1461), annulet issue (AD 1422 to AD 1427). The bust and lettering are both extremely crude- it is possibly a re-enactment replica with a ficticious mint name.
Diameter: 15.2 mm
Thickness: 1.1 mm
Weight: 0.9 g
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1900
Date to: Circa AD 2013
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.1 mm
Weight: 0.9 g
Diameter: 15.2 mm
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry VI of England (first reign)
Obverse description: Very poorly executed forward facing bust with an annulet to either side of neck.
Obverse inscription: probably hENRIC REX ANGL DN
Reverse description: poorly executed long cross with three pellets in each quarter
Reverse inscription: probably CIVI/TAS/CEAT/NNO
Die axis measurement: 9 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SJ9553
Four figure Latitude: 53.07420692
Four figure longitude: -2.07608178
1:25K map: SJ9553
1:10K map: SJ95SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
No references cited so far.