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COIN

Unique ID: WAW-71DE07

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1154
Date to: Exactly AD 1180

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.7 g
Diameter: 19.52 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2012 - Monday 1st July 2013

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete

Coin data (numismatics)

Denomination: Cut halfpenny
Ruler/issuer: Henry II of England
Category: Coin of Norman and Early Plantagenet England 1066-1180
Type: N 952-61 (Cross-and-Crosslets (Tealby): uncertain class)
Obverse description: The bust is not visible due to wear, only the tip of the sceptre.
Obverse inscription: NRI REX AN
Reverse description: Large cross potent with a smaller cross potent in each quarter. In the centre a small saltire. The mint name possibly starts with an I suggesting the mint is either Ilchester or Ipswich.
Reverse inscription: N : ON : I
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor