Record ID: NLM-47636B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Dirham of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258), as kindly identified by the finder. Paul Cannon kindly comments: 'I believe this to be a dirham of al-Mu’tadid. It is dated 288 AH ie AD 900/901. The mint is al-Shash'. This coin must indicate Viking trade links to have been discovered in Yorkshire. ?Obverse description; three horizontal lines of Arabic text; inscription of tiny letters in two orders. Reverse description: Four vertical bars, inscription of larger letters in a single order. Diameter: 27.9mm, Weight: 2.88gms
Created on: Thursday 23rd June 2022
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ryther', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-34D98D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
A complete, though slightly worn, medieval silver hammered halfpenny of King Robert I (the Bruce) of Scotland (AD 1306-1329). Class I (Spink S5077), dating to c.1318-29. Ref: Spink 2015, 22. Obverse: Crowned bust of king facing left, holding sceptre in front (to left). Obverse inscription: ROBERTVS . DEI . GR[A]. Reverse: Long cross pattée quartering and dividing the legend; in second and forth quarters are two mullets of five points. Reverse inscription: S[...] / [T]OR / VMR / EX+. It measures 14.52mm in diameter, 0.96mm in thickness, and weighs 0.65g. Die …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bowness', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GAT-60EB59
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable silver penny of Edward IV. Obverse: Forward facing crowned bust. Legend inscription partially visible. Reverse: Long cross with three pellets in each quadrant. Legend inscription partially visible. The coin has been pierced.
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Talwrn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GAT-60C044
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Richard III (1483-1485). Obverse: Forward facing crowned bust. ‘T’ and upper right key at neck. Legend inscription partially visible. Reverse: Long cross with Quatre foil in centre. Three pellets in each quadrant. Legend inscription partially visible.
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Talwrn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E13082
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Roman Republican denarius of P. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, dating to the period c.50 BC (Reece Period 1). [MARCE]LLV[S] COS·QVINQ reverse type depicting Marcus Claudius Marcellus carrying trophy into tetrastyle temple. Mint of Rome. RRC 439/1. Obverse description: Bare head of the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus bust right with triskeles behind Obverse inscription: [MAR]CELLINVS Reverse description: Marcus Claudius Marcellus carrying carrying trophy into tetrastyle temple Reverse inscription: [MARCE]LLV[S] COS·QVINQ Diameter: 18.58 mm; Thickness: 1.6…
Created on: Thursday 17th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-3B7DFB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn uninscribed Iron Age silver unit of the southern region, probably attributable to the Belgae and possibly a variant of the "Danebury Spear" (ABC 869), "Danebury Lyre Boar" (ABC 872) or "Danebury Boar" (ABC 875) types dating to c 60-20 BC. Obverse: boar, left. Reverse: horse, left with lyre above and cogwheel below.
Created on: Thursday 4th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2021
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Record ID: IOW-7C5124
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage (c.784/5-92), moneyer: Heabeorht (Chick 124; North 276.1), mint: Canterbury mint. Ref: Chick 2010: pl. 17, no 124a; Naismith 2017: 133-6. The coin is in fair condition, worn and chipped. Obverse: Central cross surrounded by inscription +O/FF/A R/EX Reverse: Central saltire of lobes surrounded by inscription +HE(ligated).AB.EH.RT (with rosette stops)
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-632DDE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver groat of the Post Medieval period from the reign of Mary (AD1553-1554). North 1960, AD1553-4, pomegranate privy mark. Obverse description:Crowned bust left Obverse inscription:MARIA, D G ANG FRA Z HIB REGI Reverse description:Long cross fourchee over royal shield. Reverse inscription;VERITA/S TEM/PORIS/FILIA. Note: The coin is in unusually good condition, and whilst the legend on the obverse is legible, the bust has likey been deliberately removed and the coin thus defaced. Thickness: 0.61 mm Weight: 1.78 g Diameter: 23.78 mm
Created on: Thursday 30th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 14th February 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-1983FB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early medieval silver penny of Eadgar (959-75), 'reform portrait' coinage (North752; BMC vi) dating to c AD 972/3-975, moneyer: Byrhtric, mint: Lympne. Ref: North 1994: 149-50.
Created on: Monday 27th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winnall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-3AC379
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of a silver early medieval penny of either Edmund (939-46) or Eadred (946-55), Horizontal/Two-line type (reverse type HT1; North 688 or 706), moneyer: Baldwin, mint: uncertain (Mercia/Wessex?). Ref: North 1994: 138, 141. The coin is in two adjoining pieces, an uneven break separating the two fragments. Together they form approximately a third of the coin. The coin weighs 0.43g. 17.5mm long (both pieces joined), 9.6mm wide and 0.8mm thick.
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd November 2021
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Record ID: BERK-7B1C46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver cut halfpenny of Cnut (1016-35), short cross type (North 790) dating to c.AD 1029-35/6, moneyer: Huna (possibly; see notes), mint: Malmesbury (possibly; see notes). Ref: North 1994: 168. The coin is in good condition and has been bent into a right-angle (90o). A crack is visible on the inside of the bend, across the obverse.
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 14th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-88DDFA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly worn silver hammered penny of Henry I (AD1100-1135) dating to c. 1106. 'Voided cross and fleurs type', c.f North 861. Mint and moneyer: Bruning/Brunig/Bruninc at Wilton See, (SF-45E103 and IOW-0BCF44 for the other two of this moneyer).
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 6th July 2021
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Record ID: SUR-205CA1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman silver denarius of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony dating to 34 BC (Reece period I). Obverse has diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra, right, with a prow at the point of her bust. The reverse has the bare head of Mark Antony, right, with an Armenian tiara to the left. Uncertain mint. As RRC (Crawford) 543/1.
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
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Record ID: IOW-292384
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver early penny (sceat) of the Secondary Phase, Celtic Cross and Rosettes (Abramson's fourth group, type i, cross in torc types) dating to c. AD720-40, mint uncertain. Ref: Abramson 2018: nos 520-22.
Created on: Wednesday 5th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-80F0F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver Carolingian denier of Charles the Bald (AD 840-77) or later, monogram/METVLLO type dating from the AD 860s-c.925, mint: Melle, France. Weight 1.52g, Diam 20.9mm, Thickness 1mm. Ref: Coupland 2015: 70, 75. The coin is in overall good condition but has a small tear at the top of the coin. On the obverse the bottom of this is crescent shaped and possibly slightly lifted from the surface suggesting that this tear resulted from the testing - pecking - of the coin to check its quality. Such pecking is typically related to a Viking bullion economy and would sugg…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Saturday 9th October 2021
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Record ID: OXON-8BC592
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver cut halfpenny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), PACX type with obverse type Pagan Bi and reverse type Hild Da (c.1042-4; North 814), moneyer: Leofnoth, mint: Gloucester. Ref: North 1994: 179; Pagan 2011: 29, 36, 53, cf. nos 86-7.
Created on: Wednesday 10th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
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Record ID: OXON-745285
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver penny of Stephen (1135 - 1154); Watford type (North 874) dating c. AD1136-45, mint: Oxford (possibly); moneyer: Æthelnoth (possibly). Ref: North: 1994: 203. See 'Notes' below for discussion of type, mint and moneyer. The coin is struck on an irregularly-shaped flan with some damage to the edge of the coin, and short tears in the flan.
Created on: Tuesday 9th March 2021
Last updated: Thursday 15th April 2021
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Record ID: WREX-E59552
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver Roman denarius of Caligula (AD 37-41), honouring Augustus, dating to the period c.AD 37-41 (Reece period 1). Obverse: C CAESAR AVG G[ERM P M TR POT] (COS), Bare head of Caligula right. Reverse: No legend. Radiate head of Augustus right, between two stars. Mint of Lugdunum RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 108, no. 2 Diameter: 12.5mm; weight: 3.21g Die axis: 9
Created on: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F03EB7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early-medieval silver penny of Eadwald of East Anglia (c.796-798/800), new type (see below), mint: East Anglia (Ipswich?), moneyer Eadnoth. The coin is badly chipped, cracked and incomplete, missing much of the outer edge as well as two larger, triangular-shaped fragments. The coin is a previously unknown type, the obverse design as Naismith E2.2, the reverse related to Naismith E4, a type struck for the moneyer Wihtred, but not seen previously for this moneyer. Ref: Naismith 2011: pl. 76. Obverse: Beaded short wheel cross, two pellets in each angle. Pell…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-EC9AAB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver cut halfpenny of Æthelred II (978–1016), 'Second Hand' type (c.AD 985-91; North 768; BMC iid), moneyer: Beornulf, mint: London (probably). Ref: North 1994: 158. The coin is missing a small fragment from one end. weight: 0.57g
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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