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COIN
Unique ID: LIN-73F6FB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An Anglo-Saxon styca of Northumbria. The coin is worn and difficult to read, but might be of Aethelred II (844-848).
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 844
Date to: Circa AD 848
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.79 g
Diameter: 14 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Styca
Ruler/issuer: Æthelred II of Northumbria
Category: Styca of Northumbria and York
Type: Æthelred II of Northumbria (uncertain subtype)
Obverse description: Unclear motif
Obverse inscription: +E[?D---]E[ ]
Reverse description: [---]VL[ ]
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Torksey area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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