Angel, coin

This gold coin was found in a monk's cell in Coventry's Charterhouse. It is known as a gold angel because of the image on the front of St Michael fighting Satan, shown as a dragon. On the back is a ship in sail, with a cross as the mast and a royal shield below. From the design and Latin text we know this coin was minted in London in the reign of Edward IV between 1480 and 1483.