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Description: | A Bear Jeton alluding to Languedoc from southwestern France. The bear was a local emblem that had no links with French regal coin designs, but instead alluded to a legendary beast (Malle Beste) which roamed the night in Toulouse. This suggests that bear jetons were struck for local use. This trading token shows a bear walking left on all four limbs with three surrounding flowers, which are thought to represent a field. The inscription around the edge reads +CEST : LA MALLE : BEST. The reverse side depicts a triple straight cross fleuretty within a four arched tressure. An exact example can be found in Mitchiner. | 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: | 1373
1415 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Siorna McFarlane | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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