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Record ID: WILT-8F6FB6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval penny of Edward the Confessor dating to the period AD 1044 - 1046. Small cross pattee on reverse. Mint of London. Cf. North, Vol. I, p. 140, no. 816.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 7th January 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-8F4A0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A penny of Eadgar, AD959-975 (EMC 2014.0296); parts of the circumference are missing in two areas. The obverse has been gilded. The edge of a small circular hole survives in the edges of one of the breaks which, together with the gilding, suggests that the coin was converted into a brooch, the hole being one of two used to attach a pin.
The coin is of a previously unrecorded type. In view of the missing portions the best guess is that the obverse would originally have read EA / DG / AR / REX (in a design reminiscent of the Luda penny of Alfred); it would fit in with other revival…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th January 2020
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