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Description: | English jetton of Edward III/ Richard II of copper alloy, 0.5mm thick with a diameter of 25mm weighing 1.59g. It is pierced in the centre from the obverse and is worn making details unclear. On the obverse is a lion rampant in polyobe with a border of trefoils between an outer ring of annuets and inner ring of pellets. On the reverse is a short cross fleuretty within a quadrilobe with leaves on cusps and clusters of flowers filling spandrels. This combination of obverse and reverse is unusual, and no published examples have been found.Date: 1350-1400Ref: Obverse; Mitchiner 225/225a and Berry, plate 7, number 4Reverse; Mitchiner 28a and Berry plate 8, number 1 | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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