Liudhard Medalet

Gold medalet, showing Bishop Liudhard, whose arrival in Kent from the Frankish court started the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. The medalet was probably given to an early Christian convert.
The obverse is inscribed: LEV.D&#x39BR.D VS EPS. The inscription runs backwards from right to left. The bust is faced to the right, the Bishop wearsa diadem and a robe with a border of dots, the folds are rendered with vertical bands and there are transverse bands below the neck. The border is beaded.
The reverse has an ornamental patriarchal cross on a semicircular base, with a broad semi-circle, standing on an exergual line and cutting across the cross shaft. The upper cross arm has two short hanging pendants, the lower arms terminate in vertical bars. A small ring encircles the junction of the lower arms with a shaft. Above the cross [upside down] &#x466 ? to either side NIN&#x186 ; in exergue V&#x39BV. The border is beaded.
The loop is made from corrugate gold strip, soldered at either side to the extreme edge below the beading. It is now squashed. The coin and loop are of good orange gold. The coin shows some wear on the bust, and the border. The loop also shows slight wear. The artist is accustomed to making runic letters.
The medalet is one of a group of coin pendants and ornaments from St. Martin's Church, Canterbury, conventionally called a 'hoard', found before 1844.