Rights Holder: Winchester Museum Service
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Unique ID: HAMP-4D4167
Object type certainty: Certain
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A worn and incomplete late 13th-century silver medieval penny of Alexander III of Scotland, second coinage, Class B, possibly Berwick mint (1280-1286 AD; Spink 5052). The twenty-four points on the reverse stars suggests Berwick as the mint. The coin has been bent and had fractured towards the circumference. The circumferential loss is up to the internal beaded border.
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1280
Date to: AD 1286
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.55 mm
Width: 16.15 mm
Thickness: 0.7 mm
Weight: 1.17 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 14th March 2009
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Other reference: E2661
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Alexander III of Scotland
Mint or issue place: Berwick
Category: Non English coin
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing left with sceptre
Obverse inscription: [+] ALEXA[NDER] DEI GRA
Reverse description: Long cross patty dividing the field into quarters; mullet in each quarter
Reverse inscription: REX/S[CO]/TOR/VM+
Initial mark: [Cross]
Die axis measurement: 2 o'clock
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SU6432
Four figure Latitude: 51.083757
Four figure longitude: -1.087674
1:25K map: SU6432
1:10K map: SU63SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Spink and Son Ltd | 2003 | Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 17 | 5052 |