Rights Holder: Colchester & Ipswich Museum Service
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Unique ID: ESS-6228A0
Object type certainty: Certain
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Early uninscribed Eastern gold quarter stater 'Maldon wheel' type, dating 50-30BC. Rudd ABC 2234; this coin is also recorded as CCI 10.0896
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 55 BC
Date to: Circa 45 BC
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.33 g
Diameter: 13.84 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 15th December 2009
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Other reference: OEF 6129
Primary material: Gold
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Quarter stater (gold)
Geographic provenance: British Eastern
Obverse description: Abstract head of Apollo, Right. Wheel motif.
Reverse description: Horse, right. Star above.
Die axis measurement: 7 o'clock
4 Figure: TL8729
Four figure Latitude: 51.928098
Four figure longitude: 0.718341
1:25K map: TL8729
1:10K map: TL82NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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