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Object Type
Museum number: 1933,0603.2
Denomination: sceat
Description: Silver coin. (whole); Crowned bust, tall neck, arc-shaped drapery; inscription in front of the bust, VV and annulet behind bust. (obverse); Standard with two angles and lines arranged symmetrically around an annulet. Lines radiating from corners. Four crosses on the outside. (reverse)
Production place: Minted in: England
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Whitby (North Yorkshire)
Materials
Type series
Dimensions: Weight: 0.70 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hill 1953 / Uncatalogued Sceattas in the National and Other Collections (94, Runic b) (not same die as BMC33); Metcalf 1993-94 / Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (3 vols.) (511, note 16)
Location: Not on display
Condition: coin broken and repaired.
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1933
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1933,0603.2

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