Rights Holder: Isle of Wight Council
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Unique ID: IOW-D57AE0
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1464
Date to: AD 1470
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.08 g
Diameter: 16.9 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st February 2010
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Other reference: IOW2010-1-124
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: Canterbury
Category: English coin Late Medieval 1377 - 1489
Type: Halfgroat: Edward IV, First reign, Light coinage (N 1584 - 1590)
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing within a tressure of nine arches (knot below bust)
Obverse inscription: EDWARD DI GRA[ ]
Reverse description: Long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant
Reverse inscription: Outer: POSVI[ ]VM (I have made God my Helper)
Inner: CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR
Initial mark: Pall
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1975 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2. Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662 | London | Spink & Son | 71 | 1590 |