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Description: | A crude base metal uniface reproduction obased upon a penny of Edward the Elder.In large, rounded capital lettering is written EADVVEARD REX with a central cross patee made up of four wedges. The second 'D' is contracted to make it fit into the legend, The 'A's are unbarred.The reverse is plain with some uneven areas.Martin Allen of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has declared that this is a "modern object" and reminiscent of "something similar produced for the 1000th anniversary of the accession of Edward the Elder in 1899 or 1901". Tony Abramson, who has done some research into early medieval coin forgeries and reproductons, states that "Given that it's uniface, it probably wasn't meant to defraud but could have been for display or teaching purposes or to demonstrate how coins and dies were made and used. Reproductions (of this form) have been produced for the last 250 years ... Contemporary imitations were made purely for illicit gain to pass in parallel with the legitimate coinage". Therefore, this particular coin appears to have been produced, not with the intention of commiting a fraud or gaining money, but for recreational puropses.
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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