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Early Medieval coin: cut halfpenny of Aethelred II
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, John Naylor, 2016-04-26 16:10:40
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Early Medieval coin: cut halfpenny of Aethelred II
Description
English: An early-medieval silver cut halfpenny of Aethelred II (978-1016), moneyer Aelfstan, mint of Totnes, Crux type, Spink 1148, North 770. Ref: North 1994: 159.

This is the Totnes mint, almost certainly the moneyer Aelfstan, and possibly a die duplicate for one in the British Museum collection (1850,0220.32), although it is too worn on some of the corresponding areas to be sure of the die link, especially since this coin is slightly double-struck.The coin dates from the 990s, and might plausibly have circulated a little later. Coin reforms were probably not rigidly enforced somewhere as remote from royal power as Cornwall, so circulation into the reign of Cnut is certainly possible, but there is no particular reason to assume that this coin was not deposited in Ethelred's reign (Gareth Williams pers comm).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 991 and 997
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FindID: 720548
Old ref: CORN-0EB0AE
Filename: 5CORN0EB0AE_aethelred_II_halfpenny_colour.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
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Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/564804/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/720548
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Object location50° 11′ 17.52″ N, 5° 24′ 18.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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