Rights Holder: Surrey County Council
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Unique ID: SUR-99294D
Object type certainty: Certain
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An extremely worn and heavily clipped post Medieval silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dated 1562. Second coinage, probably a Pheon initial mark, although this is now lost. London Tower mint. As North (1991: 134) no. 1997.
Notes:
Possibly intentionally worn and clipped for much later re-use as a lower denomination coin or token.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1562
Date to: Circa AD 1562
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.6 mm
Weight: 1.24 g
Diameter: 18.2 mm
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Sixpence
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Mint or issue place: The Tower of London
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Sixpence: Elizabeth I, 1561-1582 (N 1997)
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SU6423
Four figure Latitude: 51.00283812
Four figure longitude: -1.08926149
1:25K map: SU6423
1:10K map: SU62SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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