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Description: | A halfgroat of Elizabeth I, Tower mint, 3rd coinage, initial mark escallop, 1584-7, pierced in two places near the edge (at approximately 5 o'clock and 12 o'clock on the obverse). One piercing is wider than the other; it seems clear that the purpose of these two piercings was to transform the coin into an object of jewellery although quite what object exactly is open to question. It is unlikely that this adaptation was carried out very many years after issue of the coin.Date: Late 16th/early 17th centuryDimensions: Diameter 17mm, weight 0.94g.The Treasure Act: Coins of precious metal that have clearly been transformed into objects over three hundred years ago become objects and thus can qualify as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. However, and unlike coins that have been gilded, been given attachments or had significant parts of them removed, coins that have simply been pierced for such a purpose could also subsequently return to currency, as some hoards demonstrate. One cannot state, therefore, that this coin clearly fulfils the criteria of treasure, according to the terms of the Act.
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