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Description: | One half of a broken medieval two-piece folding tumbrel (portable coin balance). The forked end broke off at the small rivets that were holding the arm in place. This end is decorated with cross-hatched pattern while the smaller end has a zoomorphic (snake head?) terminal.The two-piece folding scales, when opened out, could be sued to check whether a coin was overweight. By placing a silver penny on the pan, the balance was used to show if the coin was the correct weight.
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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