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Description: | Anglo-Saxon silver coin which has been modified into a brooch by the addition of a pin and catch-plate. The coin itself is a silver penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), of the so called Sovereign Eagles type (British Museum Catalogue type ix), dating from the late 1050s. It was issued at the mint of London in the name of the moneyer ??lfsige.
The coin has had the reverse gilded, and has had a hinged pin and catch-plate rivetted to the obverse with two rivets each, although the pin itself is missing. The effect is thus to show the reverse of the coin (which features a cross design) as the front of the brooch. This type of coin-brooch seems to have been particularly popular in the 1050s. For another example of a coin-brooch of the Expanding Cross type (dating from the early 1050s), issued by the moneyer Godwine of London see British Numismatic Journal 1994, Coin Register no. 22 and for a further example of the same type, issued by the moneyer Brand of Winchester and discovered near Winchester see Treasure Annual Report 2000, no. 39. Photographs of a third coin-brooch of the Expanding Cross type, issued by the moneyer Edwig of London, were sent to the British Museum in 2000. A brooch of the same general pattern, but utilising a coin of the subsequent Pointed Helmet type from the mint of Oxford, appears as lot 231 in the Bonham’s sale catalogue of 12 September 1996, in which it is mistakenly attributed to the mint of Taunton (subsequently acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
All four of the other brooches were mounted with the cross side showing, and three out of the four show evidence of gilding, so the find from Great Bedwyn is consistent with the general pattern.
Weight: 1.79g (a normal weight for a coin of this type would be 1.25-1.4g). | Subjects: | Coin | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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