Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-320A30
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1560
Date to: Circa AD 1561
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.2 mm
Width: 14.66 mm
Thickness: 2.01 mm
Weight: 0.9 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 2nd April 2011
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Sixpence
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Mint or issue place: The Tower of London
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Sixpence: Elizabeth I, 1561-1582 (N 1997)
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing left
Obverse inscription: ...G AN FR...
Reverse description: Square shield on long cross fourchee
Reverse inscription: POSVI... MEV...
Initial mark: Crosslet
Die axis measurement: 5 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
No coin references available.
4 Figure: TL0973
Four figure Latitude: 52.344252
Four figure longitude: -0.401364
1:25K map: TL0973
1:10K map: TL07SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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