Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-FF3491
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Current location of find: returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1584
Date to: AD 1586
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 5.8 g
Diameter: 32 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 8th May 2009
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Shilling
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Shilling: Elizabeth I, 1582-1603 (N 2014)
Obverse description: crowned bust facing left
Obverse inscription: ELIZAB'D'G'ANG'FR'ET'HIB'REGI'
Reverse description: square shield on long cross fourchee dividing the legend
Reverse inscription: POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV
Initial mark: escallop
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1991 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2. Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662 | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 113, | No.2014 | |
Spink and Son Ltd | 2005 | Coins of England and the United Kingdom | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 243, | No.2577 |