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Silver Anglo-Viking penny of St Peter

Image attached to CM.952-2000

An image of Coinage. Penny. Sword/cross type. York mint. St Peter, ruler. Obverse; SCI PE / TRI MO. Reverse; +EBOR@ CEI (O lozenge-shaped). Silver, struck, weight 1.03 g, die axis 50°, circa 921. Medieval. Anglo-Viking.

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Coinage. Penny. Sword/cross type. York mint. St Peter, ruler. Obverse; SCI PE / TRI MO. Reverse; +EBOR@ CEI (O lozenge-shaped). Silver, struck, weight 1.03 g, die axis 50°, circa 921. Medieval. Anglo-Viking.

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  • Accession Number: CM.952-2000
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: GFX 50S
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 496.65kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2017:10:27 02:12:57

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10th Century AD Anglo-Viking coin coinage currency Early Medieval English Fitz_CM fragment legal tender Medieval money obverse penny Silver struck swords Torksey Viking

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