Rights Holder: Colchester Museums
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Unique ID: ESS-EBD393
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1561
Date to: AD 1565
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.67 g
Diameter: 16.48 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st April 2004
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Other reference: ID 3500
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Denomination: Sixpence
Ruler/issuer: Elizabeth I of England
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Obverse description: Crowned bust facing left, rose behind head.
Obverse inscription: [ELIZABETH D G ANG FRA] ET HIB REGINA
Reverse description: Long cross over Royal shield
Reverse inscription: POSUI DEU ADIUTOREM MEU
(I have made God my helper)
Initial mark: Pheon
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1991 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2. Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662 | London | Spink and Son Ltd | 1997 |