Record ID: WMID-1FBD57
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy object, possibly a coin mould of Post Medieval date (c. AD 1700 - 1850). The mould has an impression on the obverse, possibly depicting George III. The legend is illegible. The reverse is flat and undecorated and the object has a dark grey and brown surface patina.  Measurements: 31mm diameter, thickness 3.6mm, weight 21.4 grams.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th March 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-57626C
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval lead coin mould. The object is a flat piece of lead with an impression of the obverse of a George III coin. The mould is incomplete, an irregular break having removed around 40% from one edge, but based on what is left it would presumably originally have been round and had a diameter about 4 - 5mm larger than the coin. As found it measures 29.7mm by 26.9mm, is up to 3.1mm thick and weighs 5.18g. The letters GIVS III RE in retrograde are clearly visible, as is part of the bust, with a very distinctive quiff at the top of the monarchs head. The positioning of the letteri…
Created on: Sunday 25th April 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heather', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1986CB
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead copy of a Charles I Crown AD 1643. The object is broadly oval in plan and is flat. The upper edge has a circular perforation. Across the centre placed at an angle are two incised lines forming a border for the text. Written in incuse across two lines: RELI PROT [A]NG LIB PA The inscription is incomplete and a full impression of the coin has not been taken. Below the line in incuse is the date AD 1643. The object has a dark grey coloured patina and the reverse is plain. Peter Reavill (per comms) suggests the object may be a lead form in which t…
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th September 2020
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Record ID: DUR-2B5D4F
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of lead with a shallow impression of a coin, on one surface, possibly post-Medieval AD 1760-1820. The object is an irregular, almost oval, flat piece of lead. The impression of the coin is very shallow but could potentially be George III (1760-1820). It measures 36.49mm at its widest and 20.96mm at its narrowest, is 2.28mm thick and weighs 21.2g There is a very small, pierced hole at the widest point. The object may be a forger's die although the shallowness of the impression would argue against this. There is a similar item at YORYM-635E84 and at DUR-2701C1 on …
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th September 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4E1F41
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a ceramic coin forger's mould dating to the Roman period. The impression used to produce the counterfeited coin has been worn by the river, making it impossible to recognise the Emperor and the reverse type of the matrix coin. This double-sided disc shaped mould is made from an iron-rich clay, showing quartz and mica inclusions. There is a slot in the edge to allow molten metal to be poured in. Multiple moulds would have been stacked up into columns, then encased in an extra layer of clay. When cold, the mould columns would have been broken apart to remove the freshly counter…
Created on: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 10th March 2021
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Record ID: LON-BEB3F5
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
c.3rd Century AD Roman ceramic coin forger's mould of Severus Alexander (AD 222-235) with Pax Augusti. Similar in date to the other Roman coin moulds from the City of London, particulalrly those from 85 London Wall site discovered in 1988. Moulds were used to produce coinage particulalry in periods during official shortfall. Recent work on Roman coin forging by Hall and Goodburn Brown (2015) has suggested how these moulds were made by being produced in stacks with the original coin or a plaster copy in place that was then removed prior to casting. Diameter: 17.75mm Thickness: 3.12m…
Created on: Wednesday 30th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 15th October 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-1B98CC
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
De Jersey writes: a piece of blue clay about nine inches long, in shape an oblong square, containing between forty and fifty gold coins, with a partition between each coin?. Allen (1960a, 286) suggested that this could have been a coin mould into which the coins had been placed for melting down, but a typical Iron Age pellet mould would normally have smaller cavities than the finished coins, and it is difficult to understand why coins would have been placed in individual cavities in order to be melted down; in addition, the dimensions of this container, if accurately recorded, are qui…
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Last updated: Sunday 22nd January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haverhill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-114300
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The coin forger’s mould appears to be for a mid-Constantinian or Valentinianic nummus sized coin. Perhaps used in the production of the poor cast forgeries also present (no. 18) and which fit the mould.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hawkesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-C03008
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Over 300 clay moulds and fragments for casting forgeries (of mid third century radiates). Most dating to AD 260-274 and good quality imitations. Roberston 508. In Bristol City Museum. Boon and Rahtz in Archaeological Journal 122, 1965, pp.13-51.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Last updated: Friday 4th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-0EC771
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead mould of medieval date for a halfpenny possibly of Edward III, in two parts. The parts are formed of broadly flat rectangular bars with squared off ends and slightly bowed sides. The sides are generally perpendicular to the main faces and the outer surfaces are not embellished; they are, however, scratched, with linear depressions in places. Two pairs of lines on the sides, both off centre, one slightly closer to the 'coin end', indicate the alignment of the parts when put together. Although the thickness of the parts varies in places they fit together well. As implied, the…
Created on: Wednesday 30th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 30th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Faulkland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-0DF054
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead mould of medieval date for a groat of Henry VI, in two parts. The parts are formed of flat rectangular bars with corresponding diagonal ends at the 'coin end'. The sides are generally perpendicular to the main faces and the outer surfaces are not embellished; they are, however, scratched, with linear depressions in places, but with no marks for aligning the two parts. As implied, there is an impression of a coin towards each end with the diagonal finish. The impressions are of the faces of a groat of Henry VI: they measure c. 27.1mm in diameter each. Running from the impress…
Created on: Wednesday 30th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Faulkland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-95F015
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An assemblage of ceramic coin mould fragments dating from the Late Iron Age. The assemblage comprises approximately 2600 fragments ranging in size from 5mm to 106mm and greatly varying in terms of preservation. Two tray types are represented (although others may be present). The first, the 'Verulamium' type, has been noted elsewhere and takes the form of a pedimented square with 50 pellet holes, arranged in a seven by seven square, with a further hole at the top; the second, unparalleled, 'Puckeridge', type is rectangular and has 25 holes. The holes in all trays have b…
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 5th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-897C92
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rally ID: 10 Post Medieval: A lead alloy sub circular disc with a back to front impression of a Charles I half crown on the front. The reverse is blank but exhibits a keying notch in the centre. The initial mark of the half crown has a flat bottom but the rest of the mark is lost. Thickness: 4.9mm Diameter: 35.4mm Weight: 35.1 grams. Comment: It consists of an impression made from an actual coin; the coin used was a royalist Civil-War issue from Oxford. The die used was Morrieson type A, used at Oxford for the early coins dated 1643 (i.e. struck fr…
Created on: Tuesday 21st September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Myddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FASAM-90AC74
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A ceramic / terracotta coin mould for the production of forgeries of Roman coins. It is probably the mould for the reverse of a Severan period denarius (c. AD 193-235), although it is possible that it is for the reverse of a radiate (c. 260-96) - it is not for a 4th century nummus. The mould is cylindrical. The coin impression is just below centre. Above it are two impressions, apparently for lugs from the mould for the obverse of the coin. Between the impressions is a funelled channel to allow the flow of molten metal into the mould. The mould is of considerable size, a good dea…
Created on: Monday 16th August 2010
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
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Record ID: NARC-301882
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a Roman lead coin mould. The mould is square (31mm x 31mm) and 6mm deep. With three triangular prongs pointing upwards. The impression is the reverse of a coin 21mm in diameter. seen in reverse in the mould, the coin is a central figure walking left with left arm down and right arm holding a staff. Incscription reads [ ] ITAS A channel 2mm wide runs down from the coin edge to the edge of the mould, which would have been the casting hole where the wax was poured.
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LVPL-0A5332
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Impression of the obverse of a coin of Tacitus (275-6) in lead. Obverse: [ ]ITVS AVG (retrograde); [ ], draped and cuirassed bust left (would have been right on the original coin). Note, the beard is clearly visible on the chin and neck. It is not possible to determine if the coin used for the impression was a base silver coin with a radiate crown or a gold aureus with a laureate crown. This is a most unusual piece. Because the piece is made of lead it cannot be a mould for making a forged coin in another metal. Nor is it likely to have been a mould for the produ…
Created on: Friday 16th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: GLO-91D841
Object type: COIN MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin mould of the 4th century Diameter 11mm, thickness 2mm, weight 1.46g Obverse: Pearl-diademed bust facing right Obverse inscription: uncertain Reverse: concave bust Reverse inscription: none Condition: poor
Created on: Friday 6th June 2008
Last updated: Friday 8th February 2019
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