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Unique ID: BH-3A3536
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Class: Cut halfpenny
Current location of find: With finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1053
Date to: AD 1056
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 0.56 g
Diameter: 19.3 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 10th November 2009
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Other reference: Ver 09/197 - 8
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Denomination: Cut halfpenny
Ruler/issuer: Edward the Confessor
Mint or issue place: Hertford
Category: Coin of the kings of All England 924/5-1066
Type: N 826 (Pointed Helmet [bust left]) (Hild. Fa)
Obverse description: Bust left, wearing [pointed helmet] and holding sceptre.
Obverse inscription: [EDWERD REX]
Reverse description: Short cross voided, each limb terminating in three crescents; [annulet at centre].
Reverse inscription: [WILG]RIP ON H[EORT]
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From finder
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. | 1994 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume I. Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272 | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 141 |