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Description: | A copper-alloy coin weight, square in shape with one corner bent measuring 15mm by 14mm in size and 1mm in thickness, it is 1.65g in weight but worn and would have weighed more originally. Most likely to be mid-16th century in date as it was then that it became the fashion to make coin weights square instead of round. The obverse shows a ship viewed in profile with flags flying from the central mast and castles at the stern and the bow there is also the letter 'R' above one castle. The reverse is more worn and what is depicted is unclear. The ship is usually shown on the gold noble or ryal, circulating circa 1500, which weighed 7.00g and 7.78g respectively, this coin weight could therefore possibly be for a quarter-noble or quarter-ryal which would have originally weighed 1.75g and 1.94g respectively. | Subjects: | coin | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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