Rights Holder: Isle of Wight Council
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Unique ID: IOW-1D96F6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published
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 1248
Date to: AD 1250
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.72 g
Diameter: 17 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 2nd November 2008
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Other reference: IOW2008-1-509
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry III of England
Mint or issue place: Newcastle upon Tyne
Category: English coin short and long cross period 1180 - 1278
Type: Long cross class 3, not further defined
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing without sceptre
Obverse inscription: ]S REX III
Reverse description: Voided long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant
Reverse inscription: ]EWE/CAS
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely 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 | 182 | 986-998/1 |