Rights Holder: Isle of Wight Council
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Unique ID: IOW-0BCF44
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1113
Date to: Circa AD 1116
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.33 g
Diameter: 20 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 5th October 2008
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Other reference: IOW2008-2-203
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry I of England
Mint or issue place: Wilton Castle
Category: Coin of Norman and Early Plantagenet England 1066-1180
Type: Henry I BMC vii (N 863)
Obverse description: Bust facing crowned and diademed
Obverse inscription: hENRI REX
Reverse description: [...]A ON PILTO
Reverse inscription: Figure formed of four semi-circles and four piles alternating, each pile surmounted by an annulet
Initial mark: Cross potent
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1980 | English Hammered Coinage: Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III c. 600-1272 | London | Spink & Son London | 158 | 863 |