Record ID: PUBLIC-429E57
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A 17th-century cast copper alloy box lid, possibly from a tobacco box. Rectangular with obliquely cut corners, probable broken hinge on one end, the opposite end with rectangular recess, pivotted hook catch, broken. Held by a copper-alloy rivet. The cast design depicts a horse and rider facing right, the rider wearing a hat with a feather behind. He holds a sword or staff in one hand. It is surrounded with foliate designs. 70 mm long, 38 mm wide This lid has been published, by Read (1995, 157-158) as no. 1065 in that publication. A very similar lid, particularly in the render…
Created on: Saturday 11th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th November 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3F8822
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval Scottish Groat of David II, minted at Edinburgh, 1357-67.
Created on: Saturday 11th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th November 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-447B95
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A very worn and abraded copy copper-alloy Roman contemporary copy of an as of Claudius I (AD 41-54) (Reece period 2). Reverse type depicting Minerva advancing right holding javelin and shield, S C in the field. Copy of RIC I, pp. 128 & 130, nos. 100 & 116; cf. an example in the British Museum collection (1934,0905.129); G, Boon, Counterfeit Coins in Roman Britain, plate IV, cf. nos. 49-54. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage record…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-444267
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Charles I. Mintmark two pellets, probably Tower mint under the King 1625-42
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th November 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-440D43
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver groat of Edward III, 1351-77, London mint
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th November 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-439E19
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Torbay
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver penny of William I of Scotland (1165-1214). Short cross and stars type, Phase B (Spink 5029) dating to c. 1205-1230. Minted by Hue and Walter at Roxburgh. The coin measures 19 mm in diameter and weighs 1.4 g It was published in Read (1995, 54; no. 193).
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-436153
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Henry II, Tealby type, badly struck on rectangular flan, weight 1.2 g. 1161-65. Carlisle or Canterbury mint Published in History Beneath our Feet, Brian Read, 1995. Page 54, 190
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CA7CED
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Torbay
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post Medieval Venetian silver grosso agostano (1464-1506) from the Italian Republic of Bologna under Giovanni II Bentivoglio (1462-1506). The obverse depicts a lion walking left holding a staff and banner within a quadrilobe. The legend reads .BONONI [.A. D]OCET. Translating as Bologna teaches. The reverse depicts St Petronius nimbate (haloed) and wearing a mitre. In their right hand is a model of a city, in the left a crosier. The legend reads S. PETRONIVS. Measurements: Diameter: 21mm, Weight: 1.4g
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C96C35
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval silver threepence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Second coinage (North 1998). Initial mark: castle, dated 1571 (on coin). Mint of London. North (1991, 134). It measures 19 mm in diameter and weighs 1.6 g. The flan has not been fully trimmed at two points.
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2017
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