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Description: | A square copper alloy coin weight with bevelled edges of early Post-Medieval (sixteenth to seventeenth century) date. The obverse depicts a shield within a lozenge, the detail of the shield now too worn to identify a place of manufacture and/or the intended coin type. The reverse is flat and has no decoration. The weight measures 15.04mm in lenght, 13.82mm in width, 3.03mm in thickness, and weighs 4.33g.
Withers and Withers (1995: 10) note that square copper alloy weights such as this were manufactured in Germany or the Low Countries (Holland and Belgium) in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, those with no reverse decoration often coming from Germany. This example would therefore date to a similar period and probably of continental origin. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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