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Description: | A uniface cast copper alloy coin weight of Medieval (1464-1471) date. The coin weight is sub-circular in plan has a diameter of 18mm, is 3.7mm thick, and weighs 5.83 grams (0.21 ozs or 90.3 grains). The weight has a highly polished mid green patina. Some of this has been lost through abrasion in the ploughsoil. This has also distorted the edges of the coin weight and will have altered the weight. On the front face of the coin is an incised border. Within this are two punched marks; in the upper left hand quarter is a crown whilst in the lower left hand quarter is a multi-petal flower (probably a rose). At the very centre of the weight is a single recessed hollow. The reverse of the weight also has a similar hollow.
This coin weight would probably have been used to verify the weight of the Gold Coin: Ryal which was produced between 1464 and 1471, but would have been in circulation for a longer period. | 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
1471 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Peter Reavill | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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