Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-695EB3
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Current location of find: returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1216
Date to: Circa AD 1272
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 1.3 g
Diameter: 17.5 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st July 2003 - Wednesday 23rd July 2003
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry III of England
Mint or issue place: London
Category: English coin short and long cross period 1180 - 1278
Obverse description: Crown with central fleur and pellets either side. Portrait indistinct but double set of curls on either side of portrait suggest Class 5H which fits with the moneyer.
Line of pellets between beard and inner circle
Obverse inscription: hENRICVS REX III (NR of hENRY conjoined)
Reverse description: Long cross with inner circle of pellets and three pellets within the ring divided by the cross into each quarter
Reverse inscription: hE[N]/RI O/N LV/NDE (ND of LVNDE conjoined)
Note type of cap."h"
No coin references available.
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1994 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume I. Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272 | London | Spink and Son Ltd |