Rights Holder: Northamptonshire County Council
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Unique ID: NARC-A0E684
Object type certainty: Certain
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A MODERN IMITATION of a Late Saxon penny of Aethelstan produced by David Greenhalgh, aka Dave the Moneyer, aka Grunal Moneta. Note the characteristic use of his made-up moneyer's name Grunal on the reverse, and the date 95 for 1995. The coin's mass is unusually high for a coin of this type. cf penny of Aethelstan, North 686.
Notes:
Our thanks to Dr Gareth Williams (British Museum) for the identifcation of the coin as a modern imitation.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1995
Date to: Circa AD 1995
Quantity: 1
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 1985
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Ruler/issuer: Athelstan of England
Obverse description: Illegible; defaced die.
Obverse inscription: AETHELSTAN.REX
Reverse description: Central cross
Reverse inscription: +GVRNAL.MO.STEF 95
No coin references available.
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 | 686 |