File:Penny of Offa, obverse (FindID 78539).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,224 × 1,464 pixels, file size: 201 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Penny of Offa, obverse
Photographer
Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2004-10-20 10:53:05
Title
Penny of Offa, obverse
Description
English: A damaged early-medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage (c.765-92), mint: East Anglia (Ipswich); moneyer Wihtræd (Chick 180). Ref: Chick 2010.

The coin is slightly bent with damage to three sections of the outer edge.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 765 and 792
Accession number
FindID: 78539
Old ref: ESS-62EF03
Filename: Edgar offa penny high res ob.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
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/40432
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/40432/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/78539
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 22 November 2020)
Other versions

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
Annotations
InfoField
This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current22:56, 1 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 22:56, 1 February 20172,224 × 1,464 (201 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, ESS, FindID: 78539, early medieval, page 1957, batch direction-asc count 15285

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Penny_of_Offa,_obverse_(FindID_78539).jpg&oldid=827364448"