Currency, coin. [LKG 20/01/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Currency, coin. [LKG 20/01/2010]
Long description: Currency, coin. Brown metal coin, with stamped design on one side edged by a flat flange. On this side the design on the coin is of a long curved central line with three rings to one side. On its reverse side the coin bears a design of raised lines, with a distinct curved pattern around a dot on one side of the central line. [LKG 20/01/2010]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Unknown
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Roman
Date collected: 1878 Oct
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Bronze Metal, Process Struck
Dimensions: Diameter: max 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.99.28 PR no.: 54/ 9029
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers was in Brittany at the end of 1878 and beginning of 1879 and staying in France throughout this period. Some items were also purchased at the Paris Exposition Universelle, it is possible that this is one of them. [Bowden, 1991: 86-7][Chapman, 1981: 410-2] [Thompson, 1977: 61] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Currency, Coin

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