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Medieval coin: Hungerian Quarting of Sigismund of Luxembourg
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, 2013-01-30 12:56:01
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Medieval coin: Hungerian Quarting of Sigismund of Luxembourg
Description
English: A complete struck / hammered silver quarting of Sigismund of Luxembourg (AD 1387 to AD 1437, Holy Roman Emperor between AD 1433 and AD 1437), struck between AD 1430 and AD 1437, mint uncertain.

Diameter: 11.50 mm
Thickness: 0.96 mm
Weight: 0.4 g.

A quarting was originally a quarter of a denar, of Hungerian origin. However it officially devalued several times, and in the last years of Sigismund's reign, it required between 6,000 to 8,000 quartings to be equivalent to one florin as opposed to the original 400. As such these coin were usually minted with an extremely low precious metal content, and often with negligently engraved dies.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Bedford
Date between 1430 and 1437
date QS:P571,+1430-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1430-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1437-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 542131
Old ref: WMID-915E60
Filename: WMID-915E60.jpg
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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/413934
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/413934/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/542131
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Object location52° 15′ 07.2″ N, 0° 28′ 53.8″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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