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Unique ID: HAMP-FA01D8
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A very worn post-medieval copper-alloy coin: a mid 17th-century French double tournois probably of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (AD 1625-1647), probably dated AD 1640 (cf. KM# 59)
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1640
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.7 mm
Width: 20.5 mm
Thickness: 1.1 mm
Weight: 2.65 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2005
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Other reference: E1864
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Double tournois (copper)
Obverse description: Bust facing right
Obverse inscription: [...]D HEN[...]
Reverse description: Three fleurs-de-lys, arranged two above one
Reverse inscription: DOVBL[E TOV]RNOIS 164?0
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SU6040
Four figure Latitude: 51.156117
Four figure longitude: -1.143445
1:25K map: SU6040
1:10K map: SU64SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Krause, C.L. and Mishler, C. | 1979 | Standard Catalog of World Coins | Iola | Krause Publications | 265 | KM# 59 |