Glenfaba Hoard Sihtric Coin
Date made: post-mid-1020s
Description: Hiberno-Scandinavian or Transitional Group. Pellet cross and extra pellets in field and slash before face. Normally classified as Hiberno-Scandinavian Phase II, but some features common to the Transitional Die group and seem to have been influenced by it. It is not clear whether they were copied in Dublin or represent a further transitional group from Man.
+SIIDII IRE+IITHIRI +EID/DIHI/IRIII/RITIE
Some letters retrograde. Ghosting. Single pellet in each reverse floret.
Measurements: c.20mm diameter; 1.16g weight; die-axis 240
Materials: silver
Date found: 25 March 2003
Object name: coin
Collection: Archaeology Collection
ID number: 2004-0123/448