Record ID: KENT-A47AB7
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A group of 8 Post-Medieval silver coins found in close association dating to the period c.1526-1530 Description: Henry VII (1485-1509): Facing bust issue Groat class 3b escallop (1490-1504) London 2.79 Groat class 3c rose (1490-4) London 2.8 Profile issue (c.1504-9) Groat regular issue pheon (1507-9) London 3.04 Henry VIII (1509-47): First Coinage (1509-26…
Created on: Friday 4th June 2021
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ashford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-EC901C
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hoard comprising 68 gold and one silver coin of late medieval and early post Medieval date. 63 coins were found while digging fence-posts on private land. The area was subsequently subject to archaeological investigation which recovered a further 6 coins (image 7). Catalogue [Coins with an asterisk are those found during the archaeological excavation.] Henry VI (1422-60) (Image 1) Noble,    Annulet,   London,   6.98g Edward IV (1461-70, 1471-83) (Image 1) First Reign, Light Coinage (1465-70) Ryal,    type 7, crown,&nb…
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'New Forest area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-2C17B7
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Post-medieval find of 6 gold and 959 silver coins, range 1550-c.1642 Total face value of group at time of deposit: £43 17s.6d. Discussion The 1029 coins from Powerstock are all of good gold (22 carats fine) or of sterling silver (over 90% fine metal).  They are all English, without the Irish and Scottish element which is often a feature of large Civil War hoards, perhaps suggesting an unusual level of selection. The earliest coins are from Edward VI’s Third Period, 1550-3, along with two coins of Philip and Mary. Otherwise all coins are of Elizabeth I (…
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Powerstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-30E3B9
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two gold coins found c. 150m apart. Both are early issues of Edward III, a leopard issued in 1344 and a noble issued in 1351-2. Catalogue 1. Gold leopard (half-florin) of Edward III, third coinage period, issued Jan to July 1344. North 1106. Found doubled (folded in half). Weight 3.51g. 2. Gold noble of Edward III, fourth coinage, pre-Treaty Series C, issued 1351-2. North 1144. Found doubled (folded in half). Weight 7.69g. Discussion: Both coins were found folded in half, so not all their details are visible. Neither have much wear, apart from some scuffing ca…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'REEPHAM AREA', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-514873
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
2019 T715 Topcliffe, North Yorkshire (SWYOR-514873) I have examined a group of 53 coins reported found at Topcliffe, North Yorkshire.  The find consists of 51 silver pennies of the English kings Edward I and Edward II, with the latest coins dating class 14 of the series, issued c. 1317-20, and two of the contemporary Scottish coinage in the name of Alexander III.  All these were struck to a standard of over 90% fine metal and would easily have been in circulation together in England in the decade or so after 1317.  They are all full pennies, with none of the halfpennies…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-1FD66A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval gold coin fragment; probably a couronne of Philip IV of Spain, as ruler of the Spanish Netherlands (AD 1621-65); the earliest issue of this coin was dated 1622 (Brussels) and the latest 1657 (Antwerp). Less than an eighth of the coin survives. The coin fragment is 12.4mm long, 7.6mm wide and 0.6mm thick. 0.39g. The diameter could have been about 30mm. Reference Van Gelder & Hoc, Les monnaies Pays-Bas bourguignons et espanols, 1434-1715, no. 326. Obverse: Possible shield with a castle in the third quarter [...](DTO)[...] Reverse: Possible triple stranded cross …
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-729CD5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A group of fused coins from Scaftworth, Nottinghamshire. There appears to be eight coins of the same denomination included, all silver halfpennies, probably of Elizabeth I, since the two visible sides are from this reign. As silver coins, they would be of the sterling standard, over 90% fine metal. The weight of the group is 1.92g (0.2g would be a good weight for a single specimen of this coin). Under Elizabeth, halfpennies were only struck from 1583, so the group would have been deposited after that date. It is very hard to say how long after that date this might have occurred, si…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2019
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Record ID: WMID-68581C
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
I have examined two coins found in August 2004, and delivered to the British Museum on 15 March 2005. The coins consist of two silver pennies of Alexander III, king of Scotland, from his second coinage, issued between 1280 and about 1286. The Scottish coinage at this time followed the standards of the English coinage, so the coins will have a silver content equivalent to the sterling standard, 92.5% fine metal. Although the two coins survive in fragmentary from, this presumably occurred during their time in the ground, since they do not seem particularly worn by long circulation. B…
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rugeley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID-663957
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A coin hoard comprising of seventy-seven silver coins, dating from Edward I to Henry VI, dating to the period around AD 1430. Description: I have examined a group of 77 coins found in September 2004. The cloins are all of silver and all but one are official issues of the kinds of England, and thus will be of the traditional sterling standard, 92.5% fine metal.The one non-English coin is continental sterling imitation, one of many issued by rulers to resemble English pennies of the late 13th to mid 14th century: Valeran of Ligny's output was probably from the 1310s-20s, and this coi…
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilam', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-44F33C
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
I have examined ten coins reported found near Stowe. The first batch of five coins was found on 13 November 2004 and formed the subject of an earlier version of this reported dated 17 December 2004. Before the find reached the stage of inquest, a further find of coins on the site, made on 25 March 2005, was reported and these have now been incorporated into this amended report. The coins are all official English silver issues of the later 16th and 17th century and are thus of sterling standard of 92.5% fine metal. The details of the coins are as follows (the most recently-found coins …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stowe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-E9C91D
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case : 2016 T728. I have examined a fused group of coins reported found at Calton Huswaithe, North Yorkshire. The group appears to consist of eight silver pennies and the weight, 12.7g, would appear to support this suggested number. Only one of the coins has a face that is clear, as the coin on the other end of the pile seems to have become pitted and illegible. The visible side shows the reverse of a penny of the mint of London from the coinage struck under Edward I-III, c. 1279-1333. The standard of the silver coinage at this time was over 90% fine metal. Since these …
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Husthwaite Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-756142
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
I have examined a group of 10 coins reported found at Winterborne St Martin. All are official silver coins of Queen Elizabeth I and will be of the sterling standard, 92.5% fine metal. The group consists of just two of the silver denominations then in currency, the sixpence and threepence, so clearly represents selected material. The latest clearly dated coin is from 1575, so it appears the group was deposited in the mid to late 1570s. Their details are as follows, listing them by denomination and date (the number at the end of each line is that on the original packet; the coin marke…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-75AB13
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver grosso issued by the government of the city of Rome (still formally called the Senate), between the mid-13th and mid-14th centuries. Originally of over 90% silver, the coin has been gilded and then been completely converted into a brooch by the addition of a catchment and pin (the latter is now detached from the rest of the object). The weight of the object in its current state (including the detached pin) is 4.21g (an unaltered coin would weigh about 3.3-3.4g). The coin's obverse depicts a seated female figure, the personification of Rome, with the legend ROMA CAPVT MVNDI…
Created on: Tuesday 26th January 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Munden', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-B53756
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
I have examined three coins reported found in the Great Dunmow area, Essex. The coins are all gold quarter-nobles of King Edward III and will therefore be over 23 carats fine, or about 96% good gold. The quarter-noble was the smallest of the three gold denominations of later medieval English currency, worth 1s.8d. (20-pence), so three were worth 60-pence, or five shillings. Their details are as follows: Edward III Third Coinage, second issue (1346-51) Quarter-noble North 1112 2.10g (JL) Quarter-noble North 1112 …
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunmow Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-890223
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two gold nobles of late medieval England and will be of very high gold fineness - over 23 carats. Their details are as follows: Henry VI Noble Annulet issue (1422-late 1420s) London 6.99g Noble Annulet issue (1422-late 1420s) London 6.99g The noble was the highest denomination between 1344 and 1460, being worth 6s.8d., or 80 pennies (a third of a pound), so in terms of face value these three coins were worth 13s.4d. or one mark in the other medieval unit of account, which was equivalent to something like £300 in purchasing power in modern terms. There were weight reforms …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-0794E0
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
~~The following is the treasure report written by Dr Barrie J. Cook I have examined a group of 468 silver objects reported found at Littledean, Gloucestershire. The objects are clippings, material clipped or sheared from the edges of coins. Coin clipping was a long-standing abuse of precious metal coinage in Britain (and elsewhere) and in the medieval and early modern periods was regarded as a major abuse, often linked with counterfeiting, and similarly subject to capital punishment. Description The clippings in this group come from three identifiable groups of coins from the 16th a…
Created on: Friday 28th August 2015
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littledean', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-44E733
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
British Museum Curatorial Report: "I have examined a group of 23 coins reported found at Stockton on the Forest, Yorkshire, although one was only identified from images. All are official silver coins of England, which will therefore be of the sterling standard of 92.5% fine metal. The rulers represented run from Philip and Mary (1554-8) to the Commonwealth period (1649-60), with the latest coin dating to 1653. The denomination range present is quite broad, with nine different denominations running from the halfpenny up to the half-crown (2s.6d., or 30-pence). A detailed catalogu…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 1st July 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-158D62
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
I have examined an object reported found at Filkins area, Oxfordshire. The object is a piedfort or piéfort striking of the coin-type known as the denier tournois of Louis IX, King of France (1226-70).The reference to the coin is J. Duplessy, Les monnaies françaises royales (1988) no. 193. Two other examples of this type of piedfort have been published. Finds of single coins are not normally considered as potential Treasure. However, non-functional coins or coin-like objects of precious metal do have the potential to be so considered. The first piedfort reported under the Trea…
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Filkins', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DCF30D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Piedfort striking of denier tournois of Philippe IV le Bel, King of France, 4.87g (Duplessy 223) I have examined an object reported found at Kenninghall, Norfolk. The object is a piedfort or piéfort striking of the coin-type known as the denier tournois of Philippe IV, King of France (1284-1314).The reference to the coin is J. Duplessy, Les monnaies françaises royales (1988) no. 223. Four other examples of this type of piedfort are referenced in another catalogue, J. Lafaurie, Les monnaies des rois de France (1951), no. 228a.. Finds of single coins are not normally conside…
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-9E9B0E
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Barnsley
Workflow stage: Published
2014 T841 Thurnscoe, Yorkshire I have examined a group of 95 coins reported found at Thurnscoe, Yorkshire. The coins were reported in four batches, with the great majority in the second batch. They consist of three classes of material. Group 1: Official English silver coins These consist of 4 silver coins of the sterling standard (over 90% fine metal): 2 groats (fourpences) of Mary I (1553-8) and a sixpence and a half-groat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), all considerable worn Group 2: Official Scottish silver coins These consist of 16 examples of a single denomi…
Created on: Monday 17th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thurnscoe', grid reference and parish protected.