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COIN
Unique ID: CAM-58CD21
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete silver coin of Early-Mediaval date. The coin is a Dane law imitation of Alfred's two line type, minted at London by the moneyer Tilewine. It would have been struck in the Southern Danelaw, between c.880 and c.895. The inscriptions are : EL [ ]D REX and [ ]ILE:. / [ ]VNE:. The style of the obverse die is pretty good, and close to the original London style, but the reverse is cruder and has errors in the inscription. A comparable Viking coin from the Ashdon (Essex) hoard, no. 28, reads TILE:. / IVNE:., with a similar error in the bottom line. Above identification detail by Mark Blackburn of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
It is not possible to determine the coin's diameter but it was in excess of 18.53mm. Weight of incomplete coin is 0.8g.
Notes:
Recorded at St Neots and District Artefact Club on the 29/03/2011.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: For inclusion in British Numismatic Journal ‘Coin Register’
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 880
Date to: Circa AD 895
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.8 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 13th March 2011 - Saturday 26th March 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Numismatic data
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Coin references
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
To be known as: South Cambridgeshire District Area
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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