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Title: Coin Weight [Go to resource]
Description: A uniface copper alloy coin weight of Medieval to Post-medieval date. It is square in shape and rectangular in section with a bevelled edge. The upper surface of the weight seemingly has no decoration, however the under side of the weight has an elaborate letter X. The weight measures 14.16mm square, 3.17mm in thickness, and weighs 4.13g. Coin weights had a long period of usage in Britain. Square examples such as this are often continental in origin from Germany or the Low Countries, and of sixteenth or seventeenth century date (see Withers and Withers, 1995: 9; Biggs, 1992: 26-39). Source: Portable Antiquities Creator: Brown, Andrew Identifier: http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... Language: en-GB Go to resource More Like this...
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