Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WAW-2E7AA7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1251
Date to: AD 1272
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.3 g
Diameter: 18.43 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st March 2005
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Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Denomination: Penny
Ruler/issuer: Henry III of England
Mint or issue place: Canterbury
Category: English coin short and long cross period 1180 - 1278
Obverse description: Bust facing forwards holding a sceptre. The details of the crown are not certain.
Obverse inscription: HENRICVS REX III NR are ligatured.
Reverse description: Long voided cross with three pellets in each quarter.
Reverse inscription: ALE / IN / ON C / ANT ON and AN are ligatured.
Die axis measurement: 5 o'clock
No coin references available.
4 Figure: SP0956
Four figure Latitude: 52.202157
Four figure longitude: -1.869729
1:25K map: SP0956
1:10K map: SP05NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 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 | Nos. 997-998 |