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COIN
Unique ID: KENT5028
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy Iron Age potin. Obv. stylized head left, with a plain border. Rev. stylized bull butting left, two crescents above, a pellet between the legs, and a plain solid line underneath. Hobbs 715-716.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: With finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 43
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 16 mm
Width: 15 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st October 2002 - Wednesday 1st January 2003
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Potin (Cast bronze)
Obverse description: Stylized head left, with a plain border.
Reverse description: Stylized bull butting left, two crescents above, a pellet between the legs, and a plain solid line underneath.
Coin references
- Hobbs (BM) : 715-716
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Maidstone (District)
Parish or ward: Hollingbourne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ8356
Four figure Latitude: 51.273759
Four figure longitude: 0.622172
1:25K map: TQ8356
1:10K map: TQ85NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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