Rights Holder: National Museum Liverpool
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Unique ID: LVPL-835912
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1461
Date to: AD 1470
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.91 mm
Weight: 1.7 g
Diameter: 21.65 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st June 2009
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Half groat
Ruler/issuer: Edward IV of England (first reign)
Mint or issue place: London
Category: English coin Late Medieval 1377 - 1489
Type: Halfgroat: Edward IV, First reign, not further defined
Obverse description: Crowned bus foward with four lis arround head.
Obverse inscription: EDW[ARD DI GRA] REX] AN[GL Z FRANC DNS HIBERNIE]
Reverse description: Long cross with three pellets in each quarter.
Reverse inscription: [POSVI DEVM] ADIVTOREM MEVM; CIVITAS LONDON
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
No references cited so far.