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Description: | Copper alloy trade or coin weight. Probably 15th to 16th century. A small, circular, uniface weight. There are two concentric incised lines at the edge. The obverse is stamped with a crown at one edge and a lis at the opposite at the other edge. These stamps are over the incised bands. There is small hollow at the centre of the weight and the whole surface is slightly concave. The reverse of the weight has clear file marks over the whole surface.The weight of the object does not appear to conform with any known 15th to 16th century weights for coins and the placement of the symbols is different to that of published examples as the crown is generally placed over the lis (see N Biggs, 1992, "English Weights", p. 26 - 27). Trade weights of similar date generally carry the crown stamp only, or crown and letter H (ibid, p. 48 - 49). The crown is similar in style to that on the coin weights and crown-only trade weights.Date: Probably late medieval to early post-medieval. Dimensions: 17.74 mm (diameter) x 3.76 mm (thickness)Weight: 6.41
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