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Description: | A silver Medieval contemporary forgery of an English penny of Edward III - Edward IV c. 1327-1483 AD.The reverse bears the quatrefoil centre of a York (or some Irish mints under Edward IV) coin but the legend LON in one quarter marks it out as a concoction. The quarter preceding LON looks to be something completely weird like -AG and the following begins with what looks like an X or saltire. The obverse bust is crude and strange-looking and the visible letters make no sense as a legend on an English coin. Stylistically the bust looks like anything from Edward III's fourth coinage to that of Edward IV but the lack of any copying of privy marks suggests it might be earlier in this bracket rather than later.A hoard of late 15th century forged coins from Queenhithe in London provides parallels of a similar type of forgery but none of the four dies represented in that group matches this one and in any case the Queenhithe coins have the distinctive reverse cross ends of Henry VII's class III coins. This one doesn't and so is earlier.
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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