- LL1006 -
Edward I (1272-1307), Penny, 0.99g.,
class 3e, Durham mint, Prince-Bishop Robert de Insular
(1274 - 1283), (N.1020; S.1391), almost very fine. $75
SOLD
Ex Llanddona Hoard, the
Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
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The background above is a view across Llanddona
Beach near the location where the hoard was discovered.
- The Llanddona Hoard was discovered
with the aid of metal detectors on Llanddona Beach,
Red Wharf Bay between September 1999 and August 2006.
Almost 1000 silver coins were recovered, English
pennies of Edward I-II from various mints, Irish
pennies of Edward I, Scottish Sterlings of Alexander
III and John Baliol and various Continental Esterlins
from the Low Countries. The coins were reported to the
National Museum of Wales in Cardiff and declared
Treasure under the Treasure Act of 1996. The Isle of
Anglesey Museum (Oriel Ynys Môn) acquired several
hundred coins from the hoard, the balance of 649 coins
being returned to the finders who released the hoard
onto the market. The coins offered for sale here
represent all of the coins available for purchase.
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- Found within a 50m2 area
of the beach, there is no doubt in the opinion of
Edward Besly1, Assistant Keeper of
Numismatics at the National Museum of Wales that the
coins are from a single hoard. There is evidence from
the concretion on one coin, which preserved evidence
of a fine plain weave textile, that the coins were
most probably contained within a cloth container. It
is therefore likely in the opinion of Mr. Besly that
the hoard was perhaps lost accidently from a beached
vessel in the bay or by a person crossing the sands.
The last theory is very likely given that the 3.5 mile
walk across the sands has long been used as short cut.
In this context it is easy to imagine someone being
caught out by the tide and either losing their purse
or possibly their life as well. Local tradition makes
frequent reference to shipwrecks and this is another
possibly, however the very localized deposition of the
hoard would suggest otherwise. From the latest coin in
the hoard it would appear to have been lost around
1330. The composition of the hoard is very typical of
similar finds from this period, except for an
unusually high proportion of coins from the
ecclesiastical mint at Durham.
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| Link to a BBC News website story
on the hoard:
click here |
- Below is a summary of the hoard by
country, ruler and mint:
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- ENGLAND,
Edward I (1272-1307) and Edward II (1307-1327)
- London (412) *
- Canterbury (242) *
- Durham (138) *
- Bristol (17) *
- Bury St. Edmunds (54) *
- Chester (2)
- Exeter (2) *
- Kingston-upon-Hull (3) *
- Lincoln (4) *
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne (9) *
- York (23) *
- Berwick-upon-Tweed (15) *
- Uncertain (9) *
- Irregular and Imitative (5) *
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- IRELAND
- Edward I (1272-1307), Dublin (8) *
- Edward I (1272-1307), Waterford (3) *
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- SCOTLAND
- Alexander III (1249-1286) (13) *
- John Baliol (1292-1296) (4) *
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- CONTINENTAL
- John of Louvain (2) *
- Valéran I de Ligny (1304-1553),
Serain (1)
- Gauchier de Châtillon (1313-1322),
Yves (3) *
- Brabant Jean III (1312-1355),
Brussels (1)
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- TOTAL
(970)
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- * Indicates coins acquired by Isle of
Anglesey Museum (Oriel Ynys Môn), either all of this
type or a selection of.
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The general condition
of the hoard is typical of a beach find, many coins are
somewhat porous from reaction with the salt water and with
signs of abrasion from the sand. Indeed many coins still
have sand fused onto them. All of the coins were examined
and indentified by the National Museum of Wales.
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Besly, Edward, "A Fourteenth Century Hoard from LLanddona,
Anglesey", BNJ 72, pp169-171, 2002. |
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