Find Spot record MCC2625 - Coin found in Queen Street garden

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Saxon coin

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Grid reference TL 9990 2510 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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A Saxon coin or 'thrysma' found in the garden of a Queen Street property in 1952 and donated to the British Museum. The coin is one of the 'Vanimund' series, in very pale gold, probably the two final stages of debasement. Dated to c660. <1><2><3>

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  • <1> Monograph: Crummy, Philip. 1981. CAR 1: Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Colchester. 1. p7-8.
  • <2> Serial: British Numismatic Society. 1962. Vol. XXX British Numismatic Journal. p5-53.
  • <3> Serial: British Numismatic Society. 1967. Vol. XXXV British Numismatic Journal.

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Mar 9 2001 12:00AM

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