Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-4B3D86
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1351
Date to: AD 1352
Quantity: 1
Weight: 4 g
Diameter: 27.5 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st July 2009
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Groat
Ruler/issuer: Edward III of England
Mint or issue place: London
Category: English coin Edwardian type 1279 - 1377
Type: Groat: Edward III, 4th coinage, pre-treaty C (N 1147)
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing within a tressure of arches.
Obverse inscription: EDWARD D G REX ANGL Z FRANC D hYB
Reverse description: Long cross pattee dividing the legends, in each angle three pellets
Reverse inscription: POSVI/DEVM A/(DI)VTO(R)/EM MEV - CIVI/TAS/LON/DON
Initial mark: Cross 1
Die axis measurement: 4 o'clock
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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