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Description: | Copper alloy weight for a quarter Ryal (Rose Noble). The weight is circular and flat with a raised design on one side only. Weights for the different fractions were all struck from the same die (Withers and Withers 1995:19) and therefore on the smaller fractions only part of the design is visible; in this case part of the body of the ship with a rose at the lower right and the kings shield above.
It is 10.8mm in diameter, 2.3mm thick and weighs 1.64 grams, 25.3 grains. A full weight quarter ryal would have weighed 30 grains but weights were normally made to the legal minimum weight which was slightly less and can lose weight through corrosion processes.
Quarter Ryals were only issued 1464-1470 AD although they circulated longer, later weights tend to be square though so this example probably dates ro 1464-1500 AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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