COIN

Unique ID: SOM-DE0541

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Notes:

Metcalf comments about this type that 'the best guess one can make, in the absense of definitive evidence, is that it is from a small mint on the south coast, perhaps in the Portsmouth area'(Metcalf, vol III, p340). It copies the Hamwic types and like them was picked up by pilgrims going to/from Rome (one has been found in Ostia). Record created with help from Laura Burnett

Find of note status

This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 720
Date to: Circa AD 740

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.46 mm
Weight: 1.03 g
Diameter: 11.61 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 6th April 2009

Personal details

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: Entry 020452

Materials and construction

Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete

Coin data (numismatics)

Denomination: Sceat
Ruler/issuer: Anonymous (early penny/sceatta)
Category: Early Anglo-Saxon silver coin (sceatta)

Type: Series H (Type 48) (N 102)
Obverse description: Wolf-whorl Reverse description: Celtic cross Type B with the outer wire border linked to the borders around the rosettes.
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine