A interesting hoard of silver coins found at Watton in Norfolk is reported upon by the BBC News website. It has been declared to be treasure and it is hoped that a museum will acquire it.
The sixty nine coins are all short cross pennies - in some cases literally divided into half pennies and quarter pennies - and no later in date than 1247 when the recoinage resulted in short cross pennies giving way to long cross pennies. Given that they include issues of the Angevin kings starting in 1180 as well as of King Henry III, and three of King William the Lion of Scots, they indicate the range of coins someone could expect to handle at the time.
My old Oxford acquaintance Adrian Marsden is the numismatic expert who has commented on the find in the article and suggests it may have been a purse belonging to a trader.
The article can be seen at Detectorist finds 69 pure silver medieval coins
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