COIN

Unique ID: SOM-00A346

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 700
Date to: Circa AD 750

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.9 g
Diameter: 11.17 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st July 2016 - Thursday 2nd February 2017

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: SCC receipt: 017336

Materials and construction

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

Coin data (numismatics)

Denomination: Sceat
Ruler/issuer: Anonymous (early penny/sceatta)
Mint or issue place: Unknown
Category: Early Anglo-Saxon silver coin (sceatta)

Type: Series E (Secondary Variety A)
Obverse description: Quilled crescent terminating in pellet and curving right enclosing four bars, a fifth bar runs perpendicular to these along their end and at its top turns at a right angle and continues off flan.
Obverse inscription: none
Reverse description: Retrograde TOT II within beaded border, one pellet in left, three below and three in right. Downwards pointing chevron visible off centre above along with other pellets out side of the border, but the design is unclear due to being largely off flan.
Reverse inscription: none
Die axis measurement: 11 o'clock
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine