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Unique ID: BUC-345BE0
Object type certainty: Certain
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An anonymous penny/sceatta. Monitascorum Group type. Obverse description: Bust right with a cross. Obverse inscription: DE LVNDONIA. Reverse description: Porcupine. Reverse inscription: SCORVM
Notes:
"This is from a group known collectively as the 'monitascorum' which literally translates as 'money of the saints'. These are a secondary phase of sceattas, dating c. 715-750AD and have inscriptions including the word 'SCORVM'[. Many have the inscription 'MONITASCORVM' on the obverse, with the bust but others are different , like this one
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 715
Date to: Circa AD 750
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.03 g
Diameter: 10.86 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 3rd August 2008
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Ruler/issuer: Anonymous (early penny/sceatta)
Category: Early Anglo-Saxon silver coin (sceatta)
Type: Monitascorum Group
Obverse description: Bust right with a cross
Obverse inscription: DE LVNDONIA
Reverse description: Porcupine
Reverse inscription: SCORVM
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
No references cited so far.