Record ID: NMS-D13346
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ten pennies, one halfpenny and three farthings of Edward I, and three pennies of Alexander III of Scotland found scattered over a small area. All coins are remarkably close in date, the English coins all belonging to the first three classes of Edward's sterling long cross coinage (1279-81) and the Scottish to 1280-6. They clearly represent part of a dispersed coin hoard, either a buried deposit or, more likely given the presence of the fractions, a purse loss. The lack of any of Edward's very common Class 4 coins (1282-9), together with the relatively crisp condition of all of the coi…
Created on: Wednesday 8th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th May 2016
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