An incomplete silver blanc au soleil of Louis XI of France (1461-83), minted at Lyon (Duplessy 553) in 1475. Ref: Duplessy 1988:252.
The coin has been pierced, 3.48mm in diameter, to the left of the tressure, and is ridged on the obverse but not on the reverse.
The coin is incompelete, chipped around much of the edge with some areas of inscription no longer surviving.
The obverse depicts three fleur de lis enclosed in a doubled ringed, three arched tressure. At the top of the tressure is a sun. The tressure is enclosed in a ring, around which are the remains of the obverse legend. On the reverse, a cross is enclosed in a double arched quatrefoil. The pierced hole emerges on the bottom right of the cross on the reverse. In total, the coin measures 25.35mm in diameter and weighs 2.05g.
An incomplete silver blanc au soleil of Louis XI of France (1461-83), minted at Lyon (Duplessy 553) in 1475. Ref: Duplessy 1988:252.
The coin has been pierced, 3.48mm in diameter, to the left of the tressure, and is ridged on the obverse but not on the reverse.
The coin is incompelete, chipped around much of the edge with some areas of inscription no longer surviving.
The obverse depicts three fleur de lis enclosed in a doubled ringed, three arched tressure. At the top of the tressure is a sun. The tressure is enclosed in a ring, around which are the remains of the obverse legend. On the reverse, a cross is enclosed in a double arched quatrefoil. The pierced hole emerges on the bottom right of the cross on the reverse. In total, the coin measures 25.35mm in diameter and weighs 2.05g.
Single coins do not normally come under Treasure Act 1996 but those which have been modified, possibly converting them from a coin into an object, can be considered as such, and this may include pierced coins. Pierced coins dating pre-1180AD are automatically considered as Treasure but post-1180AD we have to apply more scrutiny because coins were pierced in order to take them out of circulation as currency as well as for modification into objects such as pendants. In this case the piercing although a regular round shape is not oriented on the design of either obverse or reverse and has not been neatened leaving a ridge around the hole on one side. As such, rather than modification for conversion of the coin into a pendant or other form of jewellery it is possible the coin was pierced to mark it as outside of the circulating currency and would not constitute a Treasure find.
Further infomation on pierced coins and the Treasure Act can be found at: https://finds.org.uk/treasure/advice/piercedcoins
A RDF representation of WILT-32D13F
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WILT-32D13F
WILT-32D13F
Silver
1475
1475
25.35
2.05
Blanc
Denomination
25.35
Diameter
2.05
Weight
obverse
[ ]DOVICV[ ]FRANCO[ ]R[ ]
reverse
S[ ]Vm
South West
Excavated, discovered at, or find spot of object
GB
en-GB
The Trustees of the British Museum
The Trustees of the British Museum
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Attribute as courtesy of the British Museum
A thumbnail image of WILT-32D13F
Silver
Primary material of object
Incomplete
Three fleur de lis arranged centrifugally in a 3-arched tressure.
Three fleur de lis arranged centrifugally in a 3-arched tressure.
[ ]DOVICV[ ]FRANCO[ ]R[ ]
Obverse of coin
Cross in a 4-arched tressure
Cross in a 4-arched tressure
Reverse
S[ ]Vm
Wylye
Wylye
51.132275
51.132275
-2.001379
-2.001379
Wiltshire
By Attribution 3.0
The period from for the object
Attribute as courtesy of the British Museum
A full resolution image of WILT-32D13F
1475
1475
The issuer of the coin
Method of manufacture