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Description: | A copper-alloy coin weight from the post-medieval period. This coin weight is a representational weight of a noble. These are British and date from the 15th - 16th centuries. This example appears to depict (on the obverse) a ship with two lions. The reverse is blank; it is a unifaced round coin weight. This is a particularly crude example as the ship's body has been made up of a rather crude brick-like design, other examples are more sophisticated. The offical mint weight of a Noble (after 1411) tends to be 7g. This coin weight weighs 6.4g the surviving coin weights are usually lighter. A similar example can be seen in Withers and Withers, 1995, pp19.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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