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Description: | An incomplete silver hammered penny of Edward the confessor, 1042-1066 AD which has been adapted and reused as a brooch or decorative mount at a later date. Issued 1053-6 AD. Obverse shows bust right, bearded, wearing pointed helmet, holding sceptre. Obverse legend reads E[DWER]D REX. Reverse shows short cross voided, each arm terminating in three crescents, annulet at centre of cross. Reverse legend reads +LEOFP__LDO[NG]IPE. Although two of the letters in the moneyer's name are unclear, and possibly blundered, this is recognizably an attempt to represent the name LEOFPALD (Leofwold), a known moneyer of Ipswich (GIPESWIC) at this time, so the coin can confidently be attributed to that moneyer despite the partial legibility. Die axis is 12 o'clock. Part of the flan is missing but this missing section only extends towards the centre of the flan by the width of the legend for a length of c.9.17mm.This coin has been pierced in two places by two small rivets. The heads of these rivets have a diameter of 2.00mm. The rivet heads are on the reverse side of the coin and have been carefully positioned within the centre of the terminal ends of two of the opposite arms of the cross. The rivets have a current length of 2.71mm and seem to have been used to hold a vertically positioned rectangular bar, now incomplete, in place. Less than half of the length of this bar survives and it is now missing from around the top rivet. The bar is probably made of iron and has a current length of 7.50mm, width of 4.02mm and thickness of c.1.00mm.
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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