Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-14E5E2
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Possibly a cut farthing of Henry I (1100-1135), a suggestion offered on the basis of apparent drapery detail on the obverse, comprising a doubled curvilinear line with about five small pellets aligned (cf. Spink no. 1268 obverse).
Obverse description: probably bust, possibly facing, with pelleted mantle edge.
Reverse description: Inner and outer circles, a pellet in field.
Reverse inscription: (--)[-]PA[-](--)
Diameter (inferred): 23mm, Weight: 0.34gms
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1100
Date to: Exactly AD 1135
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.34 g
Diameter: 23 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 30th August 2016
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Other reference: NLM33544
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Fragment
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry I of England
Category: Coin of Norman and Early Plantagenet England 1066-1180
Type: Henry I (no further details)
Obverse description: probably bust, possibly facing, with pelleted mantle edge
Reverse description: Inner and outer circles, a pellet in field
Reverse inscription: --)[-]PA[-](--)
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
No references cited so far.