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Description: | A copper-alloy circular coin weight. Measuring 18mm in diameter and 7.59g in weight, although the the edges of this weight are slightly worn and show some evidence of old breaks. This weight is most likely to have been for a ryal, which means that it would have originally have weighed 7.78g. Its weight of 7.59g makes it too heavy to have been for a noble, which after 1411 weighed 7.00g. The front face depicts a King standing facing in a ship with sword and shield. The new coinage of ryals and angels began in 1465 and coin weights for the noble carried a crude representation of the coin. The representational type was apparently widely used around the year 1500, as there are examples of several different varieties intended for the gold coins in circulation at that time, including ryals (Biggs 1992, 26-27). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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