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Record ID: SWYOR-A1B4A9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval coin: a silver penny. Less than quarter of the coin survives, so identification is not at all certain, but it is possibly a penny of Edward the Elder (AD 899 - 924), Portrait type, moneyer Framwis. North (1994) Volume 1 number 651 on page 127. It is 10.2mm long, 8mm wide and 0.7mm thick. It weighs 0.23g.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Sunday 27th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-88D191
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three silver pennies of Edward the Elder, all East Anglian Portrait types with blundered reverse legends, North 651, AD899-924. Two of the coins were found very close together, the third a little way away. There is no doubt that the three coins represent part of a hoard concealed c.925. This is strikingly close in date to the large hoard of Morley St Peter now in the Castle Museum, Norwich and it must surely be the case that the two hoards are connected. Quite probably the same event, most likely a Viking rebellion in the newly reconquered Danelaw after Edward's death, was responsi…
Created on: Thursday 6th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th November 2023
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This findspot is known as 'QUIDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
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