Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-14BCE5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and worn silver cross and crosslets (Tealby) penny of Henry II, uncertain type, c.1158-1180 AD.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1158
Date to: Circa AD 1180
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.86 g
Diameter: 18.43 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st August 2014
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry II of England
Category: Coin of Norman and Early Plantagenet England 1066-1180
Type: N 952-61 (Cross-and-Crosslets (Tealby): uncertain class)
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing wearing armour and mantle with sceptre in right hand
Obverse inscription: +h[]G
Reverse description: Large cross potent with small potent in each angle; in centre, a small cross in saltire
Reverse inscription: +[]O
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
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