IDENTIFIERS
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id:	217301
accession number:	CM.730-1992

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 3 July 2017
updated:	Wednesday 17 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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title:	halfpenny

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Found Stowting, Kent, 1990. The coin was exchanged for five coins from the Blunt collection that are duplicates of ones in the Museum's general collection:  1) a Viking imitation of Alfred, 'Orsnaforda' type, moneyer Bernwald (same dies as MEC 1:1381);  2) St Edmund Memorial type, rev. +CVNDETIE (same dies as MEC 1:1393);  3) St Edmund Memorial type, rev. +ERSALT MON (same dies as MEC 1:1396-7);  4) Vikings of York, 'Cnut', 'Quentovic' (same dies as MEC 1:447);  5) Anlaf Guthfrithsson, Raven type (same obverse die as MEC 1:1451).   The exchange had been approved by the Museums and Galleries Commission for the Dept. of National Heritage, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and the National Arts Collections Fund.  A variation dated July 1992 to the Schedule to the Direction under Section 9 of the National Heritage Act 1980 gave authority for exchange to be made.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/217301





CATEGORIES
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category: coin

DATING
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creation date:	924 - 924
creation date earliest:	924
creation date latest:	924

CREATORS
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maker: Æthelstan (c.924/5-39)
maker: Clip