Record ID: HESH-26D6A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copy / forgery of an Iron Age Coin. The coin has been analysed by the Conservation Department at Birmingham Museums who have found it is made of a 100% tin - as this has not been alloyed with anything else - a modern 'copy' seems to be the only reasonable and therefore most likely explanation. As the findspot seems genuine its discovery cannot be fully explained The coin has been shown to Ian Leins (Curator British Museum), Edward Besley (NGMW - Cardiff), Dr David Symons (Birmingham Museums) and Dr Philip de Jersey (formerly of Oxford Universities Celtic Coin Index - now Gu…
Created on: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-173244
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern token; struck copper alloy gaming token dating from the latter 19th century. The token is a half sovereign piece produced by the Lauer in Nuremburg. It has the old head of Queen Victoria which was used on official coins from 1897-1901 so it seems likely that this token is of similar date. Obv. Draped and crowned bust of the elderly Queen Victoria facing left BA[V]ARIEN / SPIELMARKE Rev. A mounted horseman, probably St George spearing the dragon ONE HALF SOVEREIGN Diameter 12.7mm, thickness 0.6mm, weight 0.50g
Created on: Friday 7th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skegby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-E1D497
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A MODERN REPLICA copying a silver penny of Alfred the Great of Wessex(871-99), Horizontal/Two-Line 'Edward the Edler' type (N639), originally struck c.880-99, mint: Winchester, moneyer: Wulfred. The coin belongs with a series struck from dies produced by Mr Trevor Ashmore. The coin was double struck, hence the distortions on obverse and reverse, and is over-large and over the standard weight. There is a piercing though the coin between the AEL and [---] on the obverse; and after the RE[-] on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2004
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chieveley', grid reference and parish protected.