Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-EBE589
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A silver groat of Mary I dating to the period AD 1553-54. The coin is very worn. VERITAS TEMPORIS FILIA reverse depicts a shield with three lis and three lions visible on the left side. North 1960 (North, JJ, 1991, English Hammered Coinage Volume 2, Spink & Son, London).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1553
Date to: Exactly AD 1554
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.01 g
Diameter: 22.07 mm
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Other reference: SSWM 4298
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Groat (silver)
Ruler/issuer: Mary I of England
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Groat: Mary, 1553-1554 (N 1960)
Obverse description: Illegible
Obverse inscription: [MARIA] D G [ANG FRA Z HIB']
Reverse description: Long cross fourchee over royal shield.
Reverse inscription: [VERITAS TEM]PORI[S FILIA]
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
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Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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