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Unique ID: GLO-9ED05D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early-medieval silver penny of Ecgberht of Wessex (802-39), Portrait/Dorob C type (c.AD828-39; North 573), moneyer uncertain. Ref: North 1994: 118.
Only the centre of the coin survives, the outer circle now missing. The uneven nature of the break suggests that this was not deliberately shaped but cracked around the inner circle, a weak point, after which the coin broke apart.
This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 828
Date to: Circa AD 839
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.7 mm
Weight: 0.33 g
Diameter: 12 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 15th October 2017
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Fragment
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Ecgberht of Wessex
Mint or issue place: Canterbury
Category: Coin of the kings of Wessex 9th-10th centuries
Type: N 573 (Ecgberht, Portrait/Dorob C)
Obverse description: Diademed bust facing right
Obverse inscription: no longer survives
Reverse description: Monogram of DOROB C
Reverse inscription: no longer survives
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SO7723
Four figure Latitude: 51.90505921
Four figure longitude: -2.33572086
1:25K map: SO7723
1:10K map: SO72SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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North, J.J. | 1994 | English Hammered Coinage: Volume I. Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272 | London | Spink and Son Ltd |