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Description: | 1500-1699. Copper alloy, probable brass, cast, 'square shape' probable uniface coin weight. Length 15.0mm, Width 13.6mm, Thickness 2.7mm, Weight 3.6g. Typical Medieval ship with a rose (cinqfoil?) on the front within a beaded circular border. Letters 'R and N' in the field above the ship indicates that the weight is for a rose noble or ryal gold coin, but the actual weight indicates a half ryal coin. The reverse appears blank which could indicate German manufacture or possibly a very worn illegible design - to indicate from the Low Countries. Little wear and attractive green patina. Ref. English Weights an Illustrated Survey, Norman Biggs, White House Publications 1992, page 26 & 27 and Identifying Coin Weights Found in Britain, Lions, Ships and Angels, P & BR Withers, Galata 1995, page 20.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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