Record ID: DENO-FB62F5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver contemporary imitation of a Christiana Religio denier of Carolingian king Lothar I (AD 840-855) belonging to Coupland's Group L. Probably a Scandinavian minting in the Netherlands. Ref: Coupland 2001: 191. Diameter 22.55mm, thickness 0.9mm, weight 1.58g. Referemce: Simon Coupland, 'The coinage of Lothar I (840-855)', Numismatic Chronicle 161 (2001), pp. 157-98, reprinted in S. Coupland, Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings: Studies on Power and Trade in the 9th Century (Aldershot, 2007), no. VII. Group L is discussed on p. 191.
Created on: Friday 14th October 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 10th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.