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Description: | Copper alloy coin weight, probably of medieval or post medieval date. The coin weight is sub-circular in plan, its diameter measures 10.96mm and it is 2.86mm thick. It weighs 1.73 grams or 26.7 grains.It would have originally weighed 120 grains. The weight is worn and abraded and possibly deliberately clipped in size, with a brown patina. On the front face of the weight it is just possible to see a figure standing with a sword in his right hand and a quartered shield on his left arm.When complete this weight would also have shown a ship with a single mast. The reverse of the weight is plain. This coin weight was probably to weigh a ryal (Rose noble)which was introduced in the reign of Edward IV (1464)and used throughout the later medieval and post-medieval periods.
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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