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Description: | A medieval copper alloy Sterling jetton. Sterling Head jettons were produced by people with access to the punches used for English coin dies. Presumably both dies and jettons were made by the Tower moneyers as a perquisite of the job (Mernick & Algar, 2001, in Saunders (ed), 'Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 3', p218.A similar jetton can be seen in (Barnard,1916 The Casting-Counter and the Counting-Board page 98, no. 16 who reads the reverse as L - A - T - V, which he suggests is 'Latun', but without conviction. Latun is the Arabic term for the copper alloy latten (brass / bronze) (Blair and Ramsey 2001 English Medieval Industries p81-2).See also HESH-06FF34 on this database for a similar example.
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