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COIN
Unique ID: LIN-C1E195
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A worn early medieval copper alloy Northumbrian styca, probably of Redwulf. The coin has a short cross with no border on one side, and a pellet in circle-of-pellets on the other side. Struck circa 844.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 844
Date to: Circa AD 844
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.64 g
Diameter: 12 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: Redwulf of Northumbria
Mint or issue place: Northumbria
Category: Styca of Northumbria and York
Type: N 189 (styca of Redwulf)
Obverse description: Short cross with pellet in angles
Obverse inscription: +[ ]
Reverse description: Pellet in circle of pellets
Reverse inscription: [ ]EX[ ]
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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