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COIN

Unique ID: KENT-E2C758

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture: Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 695
Date to: Exactly AD 700

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.95 mm
Weight: 0.96 g
Diameter: 12.1 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete

Coin data (numismatics)

Denomination: Sceat
Ruler/issuer: Anonymous (early penny/sceatta)
Category: Early Anglo-Saxon silver coin (sceatta)

Type: Series BI (uncertain subclass)
Obverse description: Head wearing double-banded diadem facing right enclosed within a pellet circle representing a serpent biting its tail.
Obverse inscription: illegible
Reverse description: Bird facing right on cross pattee; single annulet either side of cross. Enclosed within a pellet circle representing a serpent biting its tail.
Reverse inscription: [ ]AVH[ ] (A unbarred)
Die axis measurement: 9 o'clock