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COIN
Unique ID: NARC-ACFB17
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A silver hammered threepence of Elizabeth I. Third or Fourth issue, dated 1575. Clipped.
Obverse: ELIZABETH.D.G.ANGL[ ] bust left with rose behind
Reverse: Sheild 15/75
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1575
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1 g
Diameter: 19 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Half groat
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Mint or issue place: The Tower of London
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Halfgroat: Elizabeth I, 1561-1582 (N 1999)
Obverse description: bust left with rose behind
Obverse inscription: ELIZABETH.D.G.ANGL[ ]
Reverse description: Sheild 15/75
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Slightly worn: very fine
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: Huntingdonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Kimbolton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL0868
Four figure Latitude: 52.299516
Four figure longitude: -0.417641
1:25K map: TL0868
1:10K map: TL06NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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