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Description: | French jetton of Tournai. Tower shield of Tournai on the obverse. Fictitious legends on both sides.Dating between 1497 and 1547. This jetton is similar to several published examples but identical to none.In Barnard, "The Casting-Counter and the Casting-Board" see p.120, no. 64 for obverse design and p.121, no. 65 for the reverse but not the legends.In Mitchener, "Jetons, Medalets & Tokens, the Medieval Period & Nuremberg" see p. 238, no. 725 which is the same except that it lacks the towers in the angles of the reverse cross.
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