Record ID: SWYOR-ACA855
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver post medieval coin; a Scottish twenty pence of Charles I (1625 - 1649), Third coinage (1637 - 1642). The coin has a diameter of 16.2mm and is 0.5mm thick. It weighs 1g. The coin has been struck off centre and is slightly bent. It has also been pierced with a lozenge shaped hole above and to the right of the bust, from the obverse. See Spink's Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands number 5581.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2007
Last updated: Friday 11th December 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-928803
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy coin which is probably Indian. It has not been possible to positively identify this coin, but it is likely to be between 100 and 300 years old, brought back as a souvenir of the Raj. The coin is very worn. It has a diameter of 22.4mm and is 5.6mm thick. It weighs 16.6g.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-59BDE2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver coin; a double petard of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders (1467 – 1477). It was minted in 1467 – 1474. The coin is hardly clipped but it quite worn. It has a diameter of 26.1mm and is 0.5mm thick. It weighs 2.6g. Silver double patards of the dukes of Burgandy, from their territories of Brabant and Flanders, were made legally current in England as equal to groats (i.e. fourpence) in a convention of 1469 between Edward IV and Charles the Bold. They remained in currency until the 1520s at least. In contemporary records they are known as "doubl…
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-B2F5B6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Edwardian sterling imitation of William of Namur (1337-91), from Namur and Meraude. Mayhew types 361-4.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-B55B81
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy coin from India. Shailendra Bhandare of the Ashmolean Museum writes: 'The coin is a Paisa of Gwalior State, Gwalior Fort mint, struck in the name of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Akbar II, during the reign of Maharaja Daulat Rao Scindia (1796-1825). Details of date etc are not seen due to the poor condition of the coin.' The coin has a diameter of 16.6mm and is 5.5mm thick. It weighs 8.6g. It is fairly common to find Indian coins in Britain, probably because they were brought here by people serving in the Empire in India.
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-AD13A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Sheffield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver coin; a Scottish half merk of Charles I (1625 – 1649), second coinage (1636). The coin has a diameter of 24.7mm and is 0.9mm thick. It weighs 2.7g. The coin has broken into two pieces and been repaired. It is in fair condition. Number 5546 in Spink’s “Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands” (2003).
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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