Medieval Portuguese coin; copper ceitil of Duarte I
Photographer
West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, Amy Downes, 2009-05-27 09:52:49
Title
Medieval Portuguese coin; copper ceitil of Duarte I
Description
English: A corroded copper-alloy medieval Portuguese coin; a ceitil of Duarte I (1433 – 1438) minted in Lisbon. It is 21.3 mm in diameter and 0.7mm thick. It weighs 0.68gm. The coin is very thin and corroded probably because it was found on a beach. See C.M. Almeida do Amaral, Catalogo descritivo das moedas Portuguesas (Lisbon 1977); p.315, nos 958ff. Edward Besly comments that there are few ceitils from English find spots, though the ceitils of Duarte’s successor Afonso V (1438-81) are very common finds all across S Wales.
Depicted place
(County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date
between 1433 and 1438
date QS:P571,+1433-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1433-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1438-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 257619 Old ref: SWYOR-D03673 Filename: PAS 555 token.jpg
Credit line
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
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