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Description: | Dr Gareth Williams, The British Museum, has examined images of this coin and others found with it and identified them as modern replicas produced from dies by Mr Trevor Ashmore. Examples of these replicas can be found in the British Museum, Coins and Medals, forgeries cabinet and all four examples of these replica coins are represented in an upcoming catalogue of modern replicas/fakes.It reporduces an Early-Medieval Edward the Elder Penny, Local type. It is silver and 20mm in diameter, weighing 1.51g (23.2gn). It has a die axis of 9.Moneyer: AthulfMint: North-WesternDate: 899-924Ref: North probably 658; Spink 1078. For a close parallel see Mack Collection 760 (SCBI 20 (1973) plate XXIV)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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