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Description: | A complete, Early C14th Medieval, struck or hammered silver alloy Edward I (1272-1307) sterling penny. Long cross coinage (1279-1307) class 10cf1. Obverse: Crowned bust facing, drapery formed of two wedges and initial mark a plain cross pattee. Inscription: EDWAR ANGLDNS hYB. Reverse: Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle and the mint name. Inscription: CIVITAS LONDON. Mint name: London. Die axis: 10 o'clock. Full flan coin, centrally struck both sides. Just a small nick at 9 o'clock on the obverse. Very fine worn condition on both sides but half of the legend is fine or slightly worn condition also on both sides. There is a slight ghosting of the long cross on the obverse otherwise a pale grey surface tarnished patina. This is likely to date to 1301-1310. Ref. Coins of England and the UK, Spink 2014, page 169 No. 1410, English Hammered Coinage, Vol. 2, J.J. North, Spink 1991 reprint 2006, page 31-32 No. 1040 and The Galata Guide to Pennies of Edward I & Edward II and the coins of the mint of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Pauline Bente Withers, Canterbury University Press 2006, page 36-37. The coin is 19.19mm long, 18.82mm wide, 0.76mm thick, diameter 19.19mm and weighs 1.2g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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