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COIN

Unique ID: BERK-803AB0

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Notes:

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture: Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 710
Date to: Circa AD 720

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.99 g
Diameter: 12.3 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 17th September 2016

Rally details.

This object was found at XP Rally Milton-under-Wychwood 2016

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Materials and construction

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

Coin data (numismatics)

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

Type: Series G (Type 3a) (N 43)
Obverse description: A Diademed bust, right with a cross before, on the outer a beaded (pelleted) edge
Obverse inscription: none
Reverse description: Within a beaded, or pelleted, square in four quarters; 1,2 and 4; a saltire; in 3; 3 pellets in triangular formation in the centre a raised roundal
Reverse inscription: none
Degree of wear: Slightly worn: very fine