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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Record ID: SF-06A165
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver penny of William I the Conqueror (1066-1087), 19mm in diameter, chipped at two points, that has been turned into a coin brooch with small traces of solder for the attachment of the catch on the obverse side and a gilt reverse side which exhibits a cross. The coin is rather worn with the secondary gilt finish surviving in the recesses between the motifs and lettering on the reverse and in small areas on the obverse where the gilding survives around parts of the border. Coin type: silver penny of William I, two sceptres type (BMC iv), Thetford mint,moneyer Cinric, reading:…
Created on: Friday 5th December 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Aldeburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS24
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 30th October 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK RYBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B43881
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver penny of Æthelred II (978-1016), probably of 'Last Small Cross' type (North 777), minted by Eatstan at Exeter. It appears to be a reverse die link with a coin in the Copenhagen collections (SCBI 7 no.171; EMC 1007.1071). The remains of an iron strip are attached to the obverse and the reverse is gilded, demonstrating that this coin was once modified to create an artefact, most likely a brooch but possibly a mount, with the reverse of the coin as the front face of the object. Obverse: [ ]RÆD REX A[ ] Reverse: EATSTA[ ]EC Date: Coin c.1009-17. …
Created on: Friday 14th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: IOW-383FC4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver penny of Edward I, Class 3 (1280-1). Modified to form a brooch. Diameter 20mm, weight 0.91g. The top part of the coin is broken and missing. Obverse: trifoliate crowned bust facing to the front with wedged drapery. The bust is enclosed by a circle of pellets. Reverse: solid long cross pattee extends to the edge of the coin with a group of three pellets in each of the angles. London mint. The legend is perforated with three roughly circular holes that are about 1mm in diameter. A fourth and similar incomplete hole is at the edge of the coin. The holes are for rivets t…
Created on: Friday 6th February 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brading Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-001BE2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Medieval silver short cross penny of Richard I (1189-1199) or John (1199-1216), minted by Goldwine at Canterbury. Class 3-5c (not 5a), 1190-1210 (North 1994: 220-221, refs: 967-971). Treasure case 2014 T779. The centre of the coin has been removed and modified as a brooch. Obverse: [ ]NRICVS R[ ]; [Crowned bust facing] Reverse: + (cross pattée) GOLDW[ ]N·C; [Voided short cross with a quatrefoil in each quadrant] 19.8mm (diameter). Weight: 0.68g. DA=12:7. North, J.J. 1994. English Hammered Coinage, Volume I, Early Anglo Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272. …
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Last updated: Friday 10th April 2015
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Record ID: DOR-403D81
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver penny of Edward I which has been gilded and made into a brooch. A Class 1c penny of 1279. The reverse is gilded and the obverse has a hook piece soldered to it (following the line if the long cross on the reverse). The hook is made from a trapezoidal sectioned strip of silver. At one end it is bent over to form a loop (possibly for attachment) and at the other it is bent backwards to form a hook. The end of the hook tapers slightly before a break at the end. The coin is in good condition and was probably converted to a dress accessory quite soon after it was minted. Potential t…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Urchfont', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-CE2AB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver hammered penny of Edward the confessor, 1042-1066 AD which has been adapted and reused as a brooch or decorative mount at a later date. Issued 1053-6 AD. Obverse shows bust right, bearded, wearing pointed helmet, holding sceptre. Obverse legend reads E[DWER]D REX. Reverse shows short cross voided, each arm terminating in three crescents, annulet at centre of cross. Reverse legend reads +LEOFP__LDO[NG]IPE. Although two of the letters in the moneyer's name are unclear, and possibly blundered, this is recognizably an attempt to represent the name LEOFPALD (Leofwold),…
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.