Rights Holder: Isle of Wight Council
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Unique ID: IOW-7D9CF4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1569
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.99 g
Diameter: 21.7 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 14th December 2008
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Other reference: IOW2008-1-602
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Sixpence
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Mint or issue place: London
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Sixpence: Elizabeth I, 1561-1582 (N 1997)
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing left with a rose behind the head
Obverse inscription: []ETH D G ANG[]
Reverse description: Square shield on long cross fourchée dividing the inscription. Date of 1569 above shield
Reverse inscription: POSVI/DEV[]
Initial mark: Coronet
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
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. | 1975 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2. Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662 | London | Spink & Son | 111 | 1997 |