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COIN
Unique ID: NLM-429998
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Silver coin. A near featureless and possibly incomplete flan retaining no original detail on either side. However, one side bears a counter-stamp: letters WP with a star above, in modern (18th to 19th-century) style. As its completeness is uncertain, so the original denomination remains unclear, though from its mass this must have exceeded a threepenny value for a post-medieval coin. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1800.
Diameter: 19.0mm, Weight: 1.34gms
Inscription:
* / W P
Evidence of reuse: Counterstamped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Period of reuse: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.34 g
Diameter: 19 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 14th October 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37985
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Uncertain
Surface Treatment: Stamped
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Groat or halfgroat
Category: Modern
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Fordington
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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