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Description: | A worn and incomplete copper-alloy English jetton of medieval date. This attribution is made by approximation to the closest similar jettons; such a type does not appear in the literature searched. Although the lion rampant is a device used on Sienese (Mitchiner 1988, 151) and Flemish (Mitchiner 1988, 250ff.) jettons, the border used (a ?ten-arched tressure) would seem more consistent with English types, particularly a pair illustrated in Mitchiner (1988, 118-119; refs. 255, 255a). The lion can therefore be described as a royal Plantagenet device (Mitchiner 1998, 79); the reverse design is consistent with English jettons. It is perhaps safest to give a broad date of c. 1280-1400 to this pictorial casting counter: Mernick and Algar's Class B (Saunders ed. 2001, 218ff.); Berry's Type 4 (ibid., 220; ref. 27). On the basis of the closest examples (Mitchiner 1988, 118-119; refs. 255, 255a) a date range of c. 1350-1400 might be tentatively attributed. The jetton feature a central punch to the obverse face, as per most of the contemporary published examples (see Saunders ed. 2001, 218).
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