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Unique ID: SUR-FAA11A
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy shilling of James II, Irish gun money, December 1689.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1689
Date to: Circa AD 1689
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2.8 g
Diameter: 25.44 mm
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Other reference: 15-897
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Shilling
Type: Irish: shilling of James II, copper, 'gunmoney' coinage (S 6581-6582)
Obverse inscription: IACOBVSI[I DEI GRATIA]
Reverse inscription: MAG BR FRA E[T HIB REX] DEC(EMBER)
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SP0636
Four figure Latitude: 52.02238728
Four figure longitude: -1.91397107
1:25K map: SP0636
1:10K map: SP03NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
No references cited so far.
Find number: HESH-F28583
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: POST MEDIEVAL
Copper alloy Irish coin / shilling of James II - gun money type - 1689-1690
Seaby 6851
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: LEIC-E99338
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: POST MEDIEVAL
Post medieval Irish copper alloy 'gun money' shilling of James II, 1689.
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: SUR-5BF357
Object type: COIN
Broadperiod: POST MEDIEVAL
Irish 'gun money' of James II, Dublin or Limerick mint, December 1689.
Workflow: Awaiting validation