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Description: | A copper-alloy Angel type coin weight, from the 15th - 16th Century. This type of coin weight was used for a coin which was first issued in Britain in 1464. This example is a round unifaced coin weight. The obverse depicts St. Michael spearing a dragon (the dragon is on the right). St. Michael is wearing a halo. The reverse of the coin weight is blank. This coin weight is quite worn and much of the original surface has been lost. The metal has a mid greenish-brown patina which is heavily pitted. | 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: | 1464
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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