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Description: | A Charles I circular brass coin weight, measuring 16.6mm in diameter and 2.6mm in thickness. The front face of this coin weight has a crowned side profile bust of Charles I facing left and the boarder legend CAROLVS REX. The reverse of the weight has a crown above an 'X' with an 'S' below this.
In 1632 Charles I banned square coin weights and a new offical issue of circular brass coin weights, such as this example were introduced. They were made in large numbers and there are a fairly large number of varieties. Due the presence of the 'S' on the reverse of this weight it may have been part of a 'Briot set.' Nicholas Briot was an engraver at the mint but his connection with the weights is not known similar coin weights are shown in Biggs 1992(p30-31). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1632
1649 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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