Record ID: SWYOR-7D9485
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
British Museum Curatorial Report: "I have examined an object reported found at "Darrington", West Yorkshire. The object is a piedfort or piéfort version of the coin-type known as the denier of the counts of Blois-Chartres. The reference to the coin is J. Duplessy, Les monnaies françaises féodales (2004) no. 585. This was the last of the anonymous Blois denier series (coins that do not name an individual count) and the only one of them for which there are known examples of piedforts, as several of this type have been recorded. The coin is anonymous, with a highly stylised obverse …
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2022
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