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COIN
Unique ID: BH-23DDE5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A clipped and counterstamped coin of Elizabeth I, dated '1567'. The presence of a date and the diameter of the inner circle - the legends have been completely removed - suggest that this is a sixpence. The letters 'C O' have been stamped at the centre of the heavily worn obverse.
Diameter: 17.4mm; thickness: 0.5mm; weight: 1.3g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1567
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Weight: 1.3 g
Diameter: 17.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 22nd October 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 13/48 - 48
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Sixpence
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Sixpence: Elizabeth I, 1561-1582 (N 1997)
Obverse description: [Crowned bust left, rose in right field.] (No detail remaining)
Obverse inscription: No lettering on surviving portion.
Reverse description: Shield and long cross, '15/67' above.
Reverse inscription: No lettering on surviving portion.
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hertfordshire (County)
District: North Hertfordshire (District)
To be known as: Baldock
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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