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Description: | A copper-alloy biface weight of Post-Medieval date. It comprises a sub-square sheet of copper alloy that is rectangular in section and has extensive tool marks on all surfaces giving a slightly faceted appearance to the edges. Both faces carry the same decoration consisting of four punched annulets with a stamped lion mark beneath. The weight measures 16.23mm in length, 14.77mm in width, 3.43mm in thickness, and weighs 5.90g (91 grains). The presence of four annulets and a lion on both surfaces indicates that this was a four pennyweight bullion weight of 18th century or later date, although this falls slightly below the standard 6.24g (96 grains) of the four pennyweight (see Biggs, 1993: pp. 18-21; Egan, 2005: pp. 163 no. 833). Biggs notes that Square pieces of copper-alloy stamped with a number of annulets or dots to represent the pennyweight were common from the 17th century through until the 20th century, the lion stamp appearing in around 1700 AD as an unofficial goldsmiths mark (Biggs, 1993: pp. 18). The use of the pennyweight as a legal unit stopped in 1853 (Biggs, 1993: pp. 18).
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