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Unique ID: BH-CB4521
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Class:
Primary sceat
Sub class: Series BIB
Current location of find: With finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 680
Date to: Circa AD 710
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.6 mm
Weight: 1.13 g
Diameter: 12.1 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 5th July 2009
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Other reference: Ver 09/83 - 6
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Sceat
Ruler/issuer: Anonymous (early penny/sceatta)
Category: Early Anglo-Saxon silver coin (sceatta)
Type: Series BIb (Type 27b) (N 126)
Obverse description: Diademed head right, pellet border.
Obverse inscription: No legend.
Reverse description: Bird on cross, annulet at each end; beaded snake border, head at five o'clock.
Reverse inscription: VA[......]VA
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
No references cited so far.