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EMC finds from Pocklington
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has a database which holds a register of finds from Metal Detecting from the Early Mediaeval period (410-1180). All Images and information is supplied with the kind permission of the 'Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge', the website can be accessed here.
2008 0033 obverse2008 0033 reverse

EMC number 2008.0036
State: Northumbria (600-867), Ruler: anon. (shilling) (600-675)
Type: Sutherland V: York Group (640-660)
Mint: York, moneyer uncertain.
Weight: 1.29g.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Rev. +VOIIENVLED: [retrograde]
Source:
Comments: SAME COIN AS EMC 2007.0088

The coin EMC 2007.0088 was sold in an auction by Spinks for £25,000 on 18th March 2021.

emc 2007.0088

 

This is the auction description:

Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 19

Anglo-Saxon England, Bishop of York, Paulinus (625-633 / † 10 October 644), Gold Shilling (58% AV), 'Ultra Crondall', York Group, Inscriptional type, face over segmented wall, bifurcated cross forms features, teardrops, cross pattée either side, rev. PVOHENVT ED: [PAVLINVS EP(ISCOPVS)], letters retrograde and inverted, central cross pattée in beaded circle, 1.29g, 320° (SCBI 69, 5 this coin; BNJ 2019, pp. 1-18; T&S pp. 50-51, 76; A&W type V, xxi; Gannon, pp. 27-28, 62, 88, 172 nos. 111, 185 and no. 30, Fig. 2.4; cf. North 27; Spink 763), the reverse off-struck, nevertheless a handsomely bold striking, extremely fine and of national significance, the discovery coin naming this totemic historical and religious figurehead and latterly first Bishop of York

Provenance:
Acquired privately from finder, March 2007
~ Found by R Last at Pocklington (East Yorkshire), March 2007 ~
[EMC 2007.0088 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 80]

Sold for
£25,000

Starting price
£4000

 

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EMC number 2001.0244
State: Northumbria (600-867), Ruler: Æthelred I (1st reign) (774-778)
Type: Æthelred I of Northumbria (no further details) (774-796)
Mint: York, moneyer: Tidwulf (TIDVVLF).
Weight not recorded.
Findspot: Barmby Moor, near, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 7748)
Obv. + EDLRED RE
Rev. + TIDVVLF
Source: Pirie, E.J.E. Thrymsas and Sceattas and Stycas of Northumbria. An Inventory of Finds recorded to 1997. Northumbrian Numismatic studies 2, 2000.
Comments: Pirie notes: Pocklington area. As Booth 1987, var.ii (nos.61-64). Bonser notes 1525/133
EMS 2001 0108obv2001_0108rev
EMC number 2001.0108
State: Diocese of Canterbury (766-924), Ruler: Wulfred (805-832)
Type: N 240.1 (Abp Wulfred Group III regular monogram) (815-823)
Mint: Canterbury, moneyer: Swefheard (SVVEFHEARD).
Weight not recorded. Die axis: 80. Preservation: chipped.
Findspot: Barmby Moor
Obv. + VVLFREDI ARIHEPISOPI
Rev. + SVVEFHEARD MONETA
Source: Booth J.. 'Northumbrian Coinage: the Productive Site at South Newbald'. Yorkshire Numismatist, 3, 1997, pp. 15-38. Pirie, E.J.E. Thrymsas and Sceattas and Stycas of Northumbria. An Inventory of Finds recorded to 1997. Northumbrian Numismatic studies 2, 2000.
Comments: Pirie 2000 notes: Barmby Moor. cf. BMC Kent 28, coin auctioned at Sotheby's 6.11.97, lot 450 ex Feather collection> Sotheby's catalogue, lot 450: Barmby Moor (near Pocklington).
Image source: Sotheby's catalogue (300 pixels, 300 dpi)
2008 0018 Obverse2008 0018 Reverse
EMC number 2008.0018
State: East Anglia (700-880), Ruler: anon. (early penny) (700-750)
Type: Series R : Uncertain subclass (710-760)
Mint and moneyer unknown.
Weight: 0.97g. Die axis: 0.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Source:
Comments: A imitation with a portrait of unusual form
1996 0079 Obverse1996 0079 Reverse
EMC number 1996.0079
State: Early Continental (580-750), Ruler: anon. (early penny) (675-750)
Type: Series D (Type 8) (N 50) (700-715)
Mint and moneyer unknown.
Weight: 1.22g.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Source: Coin Register from British Numismatic Journal 66 (1996), no. 79
1996 0130 Obverse1996 0130 Reverse
EMC number 1996.0130
State: Northumbria (600-867), Ruler: Eadberht (737-758)
Type: N 178 (Series Y: Eadberht: beast left) (737-758)
Mint: York, moneyer uncertain.
Weight not recorded.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Source: Coin Register from British Numismatic Journal 66 (1996), no. 130
Comments: Booth Class B
2008 0094 Obverse2008 0094 Reverse
EMC number 2008.0094
State: Northumbria (600-867), Ruler: Eanred (810-840)
Type: N 186 ('Styca' of Eanred) (810-840)
Mint: York, moneyer: Cynewulf (CYNVVLF).
Weight: 1.09g. Die axis: 75.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Obv. +EANRED REX
Rev. +CYNVVLF [N retrograde, Vs as inverted As]
Source: Coin Register 2008
2008 0099 Obverse2008 0099 Reverse
EMC number 2008.0099
State: Northumbria (600-867), Ruler: Æthelred II (1st reign) (840-844)
Type: N 188 ('Styca' of Æthelred II First reign) (840-844)
Mint: York, moneyer: Leofthegn (LEOFDEJ[ ]).
Weight: 1.07g. Die axis: 60.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Obv. +EDELRED REX
Rev. +LEOFDEJ[ ]
Source: Coin Register 2008
2008 0100 Obverse2008 0100 Reverse
EMC number 2008.0100
State: Northumbria (600-867), Ruler: Æthelred II (1st reign) (840-844)
Type: N 188 ('Styca' of Æthelred II First reign) (840-844)
Mint: York, moneyer: Brother (BRODER).
Weight: 0.92g. Die axis: 90.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Obv. +EDELRED REX
Rev. +BRODER
Source: Coin Register 2008
2008 0107 Obverse2008 0107 Reverse
EMC number 2008.0107
State: Northumbria (600-867), Ruler: anon. (Northumbrian, mid-9c) (850-867)
Type: N 191.8 (Irregular Northumbrian 'styca'; mid ninth century) (850-867)
Mint: York (copy?), moneyer: Eadwine (EADVINI).
Weight: 0.82g.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Obv. +EC.EVVIR[E?] [retrograde, R inverted]
Rev. +EADVINI [retrograde]
Source: Coin Register 2008
1996 0193 Obverse1996 0193 Reverse
EMC number 1996.0193
State: Danelaw (York) (870-927), Ruler: Cnut (895-902)
Type: N 501 (Cunnetti) (900-905)
Mint: York, moneyer uncertain.
Weight: 1.42g. Die axis: 90.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Source: Coin Register from British Numismatic Journal 66 (1996), no. 193
2007 0134 Obverse2007 0134 Reverse
EMC number 2007.0134
State: Anglo-Saxon England (871-1066), Ruler: Edward the Martyr (975-978)
Type: N 763 (Edward Martyr's Small Cross) (975-978)
Mint: York (EFR), moneyer: Ælfstan (ELFSTAN).
Weight not recorded.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Obv. +EADPEARD REX AI
Rev. +ELFSTAN M-O EFR
Source: Coin Register 2008, no.
1998 0215 Obverse1998 0215 Reverse
EMC number 1988.0215
State: Norman England (1066-1154), Ruler: Henry I (1100-1135)
Type: Henry I BMC x (N 866) (1117-1119)
Mint: York, moneyer: Leysingr (Las[ ]).
Weight: 1.17g. Die axis: 160. Preservation: chipped. Secondary Treatment: snick at 8 o'clock.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Obv. + hENRICVS E+ A
Rev. + LAS[ ]EVE
Source: Coin Register from British Numismatic Journal 58 (1988), no. 215
Comments: PJS: 'Miss Archibald reports that this coin is from different dies to the coin of Laising of this type from the Lincoln hoard, and she points out that there is a faint 'E' sketchily cut into the die under the X on the obverse and a faint 'X' between the X and final A, the diecutter having carelessly omitted the R of REX.'
2008 004 Obverse2008 004 Reverse
EMC number 2008.0004
State: Norman England (1066-1154), Ruler: Henry I (1100-1135)
Type: Henry I BMC xv (N 871) (1125-1135)
Mint: Canterbury (CANPA), moneyer: Rodbert (R[ ]).
Weight: 1.25g. Preservation: cracked and repaired.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Obv. +hENRICVS:
Rev. +R[ ]CANPA
1998 0238 Obverse1998 0239 Reverse
EMC number 1988.0239
State: Plantagenet England (1154-1307), Ruler: Henry II (1154-1189)
Type: N 961 (Cross-and-Crosslets (Tealby): class F) (1170-1180)
Mint: Canterbury, moneyer uncertain.
Weight: 1.26g. Die axis: 200.
Findspot: Pocklington, Yorkshire, East Riding, England (SE 8049)
Source: Coin Register from British Numismatic Journal 58 (1988), no. 239

To all Pocklington area Metal Detectorists , would you please send me photos of your finds to place on this website and together we can build a useful history of the area. Please contact me.