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COIN
Unique ID: SWYOR-EB9293
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An Iron Age possibly gold coin, or possibly the copper alloy core of a gold plated stater. The coin is damaged and may have been in a fire. It is probably a Corieltavi South Ferriby type dating from about 45 - 10 BC. Part of a disjointed horse is visible on the reverse, but the obverse is illegible (possibley due to obliterated dies). The coin is a pale golden yellow colour, but with areas of bright copper colour showing, especially where scratched. However, there is no clear gold layer suggesting that it was plated. Compare number 811-6 in Van Arsdell for example.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 45 BC
Date to: Circa 10 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4.59 mm
Weight: 5.23 g
Diameter: 18.43 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 13th March 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 1443
Materials and construction
Primary material: Gold
Secondary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Stater (gold)
Ruler/issuer: Uninscribed
Tribe: Corieltavi
Geographic provenance: British North Eastern
Obverse description: illegible
Reverse description: disjointed horse
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Status: Contemporary copy (Core of plated copy)
Status qualifier: Possibly
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: North Ferriby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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