Rights Holder: Isle of Wight Council
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Unique ID: IOW-CEAC95
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 1251
Date to: AD 1272
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.62 g
Diameter: 17.1 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 24th May 2009
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Other reference: IOW2009-13-3
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Cut halfpenny
Ruler/issuer: Henry III of England
Mint or issue place: London
Category: English coin short and long cross period 1180 - 1278
Type: Long cross class 5b (N 992)
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing with sceptre
Obverse inscription: ]NRICVS[ (N and R ligated)
Reverse description: Long cross voided dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant
Reverse inscription: []/ARD/ONL/[](A and R ligated, N and L ligated; pellet on bar of N)
Die axis measurement: 4 o'clock
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 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 | 992/2 |