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COIN

Unique ID: KENT-42FB2F

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 710
Date to: Circa AD 735

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.61 mm
Weight: 0.83 g
Diameter: 12.26 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete

Coin data (numismatics)

Denomination: Sceat
Ruler/issuer: Anonymous (early penny/sceatta)
Category: Early Anglo-Saxon silver coin (sceatta)

Type: Series U (Type 23d)
Obverse description: Figure looking right with cynehelm?, wearing pleated smock standing in crescent (celestial?) boat or lunette, holding long cross pomee in each hand Reverse description: Linear long necked bird right, in foliage pecking at berries, with branch with berries above.
Die axis measurement: 7 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine