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Record ID: LIN-2FF154
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval hammered penny of Cnut, struck at the Lincoln mint. On the obverse is a left facing bust holding a sceptre with a lis head. The legend reads: CNV-T REX. The reverse has a voided short cross with annulet ends and a pellet centre with the legend: LEOFPIN ON LIN.
Cnut's short cross coinage was struck between c.1029 and c.1036, and this coin corresponds to North number 790.
Created on: Sunday 15th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
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Record ID: LIN-D17C35
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval lead strap-end. The strap end is rendered in the Winchester style. Although this decoration is fairly crude in execution and eccentric in detail, it depicts a fairly standard inhabited plant-scroll design featuring a pair of confronted lizard-like creatures with rounded heads (and possibly tails) at the top, each perched on the branches of a central plant which sprouts from an unusual calyx or bulb at the bottom. Whilst fairly low-level in craftsmanship, the fact the decoration has been finished and the rivet holes pierced shows that such lead examples were clearly inte…
Created on: Monday 28th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
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