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COIN
Unique ID: NARC-5C03F2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An Early Medieval silver penny of Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury (810-15), Group II 'transitional monogram' type (815-23; North 240). Minted by the moneyer Swefherd at Canterbury. Reference: North 1994: No.240, Fig.18.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: Include in MedArch
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 810
Date to: Circa AD 815
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.1 g
Diameter: 20 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury
Mint or issue place: Canterbury
Category: Penny of the Archbishops of Canterbury 8th-9th century
Type: N 240 (Abp Wulfred Group II transitional monogram)
Obverse description: Tonsured bust facing within inner circle
Obverse inscription: WVLFREDI ARCHIEPISCOPI
Reverse description: Monogram of DOROBERNIA
Reverse inscription: SVVEFHERD MONETA
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: Huntingdonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Brington and Molesworth (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL0676
Four figure Latitude: 52.37180033
Four figure longitude: -0.44443818
1:25K map: TL0676
1:10K map: TL07NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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