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
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