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Description: | A Treasure Report on 6 Medieval coins by Barrie Cook, curator of Medieval Coinage at the British Museum, follows:I have examined six coins reported found at Preston Capes, Northamptonshire. All are silver, with four being official issues of King Edward I, which will have a silver fineness of a little over 90%. The other two are imitations of the English penny issued by continental rulers in their own names. Analysis has shown that sterlings of the count of Flanders of this type range from 85 to 95% silver and sterlings of William, bishop of Cambrai range from 83 to 94% silver. Details of the coins are as follows.Edward I, King of England (1272-1307)Penny 2b (1279) London 1.32g3c (1280-1) Bristol 1.37g3d (1280-1) London 1.21g4b (1282-9) London 1.17gWilliam of Hainaut, Bishop of Cambrai (1285-96)Sterling (crockard type) M.88 1.22gGui de Dampierre, Count of Flanders (1279-1305)Sterling (pollard type) M.13 1.24g (with small detached fragment)('M' references are to N.J. Mayhew, Sterling Imitations of Edwardian Type)In 1279 Edward I had authorised a complete recoinage in England and the coins present here are from relatively soon after that recoinage. In the 1290s a large numbers of foreign coins imitating the English design were imported to England and inspired a major government onslaught to remove them from the currency, culminating in a partial recoinage of these so-called 'pollards and crockards' in 1299-1300. The presence together in this small group of early types of Edward I's pennies and 2 foreign sterlings appears to place it nicely in the mid 1290s.All the coins reported are of good silver and would have circulated together in the very particular circumstances of the 1290s. It is my opinion, therefore, that the find constitutes Treasure, according to the terms of the Act.Two subsequent coins were found and have been given the treasure number 2011 T662. The coins are recorded seperately on this database as NARC-ED9741 and NARC-EE5E13. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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