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Unique ID: LANCUM-EFD7C1
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post-medieval coin hoard from Newton-with-Scales, Lancashire (2004T30)
I have examined a group of coins reported found at Newton with Scales in January 2004. The coins are all official English issues of the traditional sterling standard, i.e. 92/5% fine metal.The coins consist of three denominations: 11 groats (fourpences) of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, and a sixpence and 7 threepences of Elizabeth, amounting to a sum with a face value of five shillings and fivepence, which would be something like £20-30 in modern terms.The coins would certainly have circulated together, and the limited range of denominations present indicates a degree of selection, which demonstrates the find to be a single group of material deposited, accidentally or for purposes of concealment, in the mid to late 1580s.
Given that the coins are of good silver, and are virtually certainly a group deposited together on a single occasion, it is my opinion that they fulfil the criteria of Treasure according to the terms of the Act.
Catalogue
Mary I (1553-4)
1-7.Groat im pomegranate1.621.111.731.821.391.651.81
Mary and Philip (1554-8)
8.Groat lis1.52
Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
9.Sixpence A15842.67
10-11.Groat cross crosslet (1560-1)1.721.56
12.martlet (1560-1)1.89
13.Threepence pheon (1561-5)15621.12
14.portcullis (1565/6-66/715661.27
15.coronet (1567-70)15681.19
16.castle (1570-2)15711.14
17.ermine (1572-3)15721.43
18.cross (1578-80)15781.18
19.sword (1581-2/3)15821.45
Dr B.J. Cook
Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Coinage
Department of Coins and Medals
British Museum
23 May 2004/ amended 15 July 2004
Current location of find: British Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Treasure case tracking number: 2004T30
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1585
Date to: Exactly AD 1590
Quantity: 16
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2004
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Treasure case number: 2004T30
Museum accession number: 2004/T30
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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