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Description: | Small lead weight. The weight is square in plan and rectangular in cross-section. Around the perimeter there is a casting seam, and below the seam on one side there is a section that looks slightly cut out, as if to reduce its weight. The face of the weight is decorated with a crown with cross-hatched interior on a cross-hatched field. The reverse is very worn but looks to be undecorated. Small weights such as this one are thought to be some of the countries earliest coin weights however the mass of the object is 4.69g which makes its identification difficult. A very similar weight illustrated in Biggs & Withers, (2000, p48, no. 147) has a mass of 4.90g and is thought to have been a weight for checking the couronne d'or of Philip VI of France, issued in 1340. Other similar weights are also illustrated as no's 149 and 150, weighing 4.18 and 3.40g respectively.
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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