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Details for Coins and Medals

This department has 105,278 records attributed within our system.

Connected records

One modern coin:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Elizabeth II (r. 1952-2022)

Iran, 50 rials, SH 1384 [2005].

One modern coin and three banknotes:

Maker(s)

Mint: Royal Mint
Ruler: Elizabeth II (r. 1952-2022)

United Kingdom, Elizabeth II (1952- ), 5-pound coin, 2006.

Maker(s)

Mint: Royal Mint
Ruler: Elizabeth II (r. 1952-2022)

Rome, Senate (c.1285-c.1350), bill. denaro (CNI XV, 135.280), 0.95g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Rome

Rome, Senate (c.1300-1404), bill. denaro provisino (cf. CNI XV, 151-2.424-5), 0.32g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Rome

Germany, Magdeburg, archbishops of, anonymous AR penny, early 12th cent., mint Gittelde, after a Goslar type; obv. +MA[VRICIVS IM], facing bust with lance and sceptre; rev. [S SIMON S IVDA], busts of the apostles with LEX above their heads (Kluge, Deutsche Münzgeschichte 436), 0.87g. Bt Spink 2005; ex Pimprez (dép. Oise, France) hoard 2002.

Maker(s)

Mint: Gittelde

Iran, 500 rials, SH 1384 [2005].

Coin weight, copper-alloy, for a French royale d’or of Charles IV or Philip VI (1322-28, 1328-50) (Dieudonné pl. 1.5), 3.92g. Found by Mr Woolcombe at Abbey Farm, Histon, Cambridgeshire, 2005.

Russia, State Hermitage Museum, medal for the Coin Cabinet, 2002, issued on the 150th anniversary of the opening of the New Hermitage Museum in 1852, and accompany a new exhibition of coins and medals, the catalogue of which has also been donated by Dr Yarovaya, struck bronze, 65mm.

Spoleto, Pope Pius II (1458-64), bill. quattrino (CNI XIV, 230.19 var.), 0.52g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Rome
Ruler: Pope Pius II (1458-1464)

Ancona, Commune (15th century), bill. denaro (CNI --), 0.32g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Ancona

England, Richard II (1377-99), contemporary forgery, gilt on silver, of a half-noble, London mint (after Webb Ware type 2), 2.81g. Found by Mr Hodges at Abridge, Essex, April 2005.

Maker(s)

Ruler: Richard II (1377-99)

Ancona, Commune (c.1170 – 14th century, struck 14th century), bill. denaro (CNI --), 0.49g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Ancona

Florence, Commune (c.1236-1532, struck 14th century), bill. quattrino (cf. CNI XII, 36.222, 225, 227), 0.34g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Rome

Rome, Senate (1184-c.1439, struck mid-14th century), AR grosso (CNI XV, 130.240), 1.82g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Rome

Procopius (365-6), Æ, Constantinople, rev. Emperor standing (RIC -), 2.46g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Constantinople
Ruler: Procopius (365-66)

Merovingians, Frisia, mid-7th cent., contemporary forgery in very base gold or silver of a gold tremissis, Dronrijp type (cf. MEC 1.517-520), 1.22g. Found by Mr Kushinguru at Ludborough, Lincs, October 2001 (‘Coin Register 2002’, BNJ 72 (2002), p. 196, no. 58).

Ancona, Commune (c.1170-14th century, struck before 1200), bill. denaro (CNI XIII, 3.16), 0.68g.

Maker(s)

Mint: Ancona

Two Roman Provincial coins:

Maker(s)

Mint: Anchialus
Ruler: Septimius Severus (193-211)

Two Roman Provincial coins:

Maker(s)

Mint: Nicopolis ad Istrum
Ruler: Septimius Severus (193-211)

One Greek coin:

Vespasian (69-79), Æ semis, Rome, AD 77-8, rev. Winged caduceus between crossed cornuacopiae (NNB 8 (1996), 18), 4.01g. From list 156, no 325.

Maker(s)

Mint: Rome
Ruler: Vespasian (69-79)

One Greek coin and ten modern coins:

Maker(s)

Ruler: Elizabeth II (r. 1952-2022)

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