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Object Type
Museum number: 1933,0603.5
Denomination: penny
Description: silver coin. (whole); Small facing head in triple cawl (wire/pellets/wire), surrounded by 12 annulets enclosing a pellet. (obverse); Whorl of three lion's heads, with extended tongues. Their jaws meet towards a central pellet. (reverse)
Cultures/periods
Production date: 720-740
Production place: Minted in: London (England)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Whitby (North Yorkshire)
Materials
Type series
Dimensions: Weight: 1.01 grammes
Bibliographic references: Hill 1953 / Uncatalogued Sceattas in the National and Other Collections (102, Type 49/48, pl. 6, 22); Metcalf 1993-94 / Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (3 vols.) (332)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1933
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1933,0603.5

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