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COIN
Unique ID: LEIC-29AE5A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval silver commonwealth clipped halfpenny, 1649-60.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1649
Date to: Exactly AD 1660
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Weight: 0.2 g
Diameter: 9 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Ruler/issuer: Commonwealth of England
Category: English coin early Modern 1489 - 1660
Type: Halfpenny: Commonwealth (N 2730)
Obverse description: St. Georges cross on shield
Reverse description: harp on shield
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Charnwood (District)
Parish or ward: Mountsorrel (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5714
Four figure Latitude: 52.72065744
Four figure longitude: -1.15754429
1:25K map: SK5714
1:10K map: SK51SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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