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Record ID: DOR-D89C32
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
These are a group of 4 silver pennies of the Short Cross coinage, a type used for about 80 years though 4 reigns. Their details allow them to be dated more precisely, as set out below. As official English pennies they will have a silver standard of over 90% fine metal. They would have been in currency together in the years around 1210 and it is likely that they represent a single deposit. In the 13th century cut halfs and quarters of Short Cross pennies usually outnumber full pennies in areas of individual coin losses, and a collection of full pennies alone is more likely to represent…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th July 2014
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This findspot is known as 'Shillingstone', grid reference and parish protected.
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