Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOMDOR-14CCE7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Post AD 1251
Date to: Ante AD 1272
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.3 g
Diameter: 18.6 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st December 2006
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry III of England
Mint or issue place: London
Category: English coin short and long cross period 1180 - 1278
Obverse description: Facing bust, sceptre, oval eyes
Obverse inscription: HENRICVS REX III
Reverse description: Voided long cross
Reverse inscription: [RIC/AR]D/ONL/VND/
Die axis measurement: 8 o'clock
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1994 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume I. Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272 | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 227 | no. 993 |