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Description: | A worn copper-alloy coin weight of post-medieval date. It is square and decorated unifacially. In low relief on the upper face is a seated monarch within a beaded border. Withers & Withers (1995, 25) note that this device was used on weights produced in the Low Countries for certain coins of Henry VIII. The dimensions of this coin would be consistent with a coin weight for a half sovereign, albeit the weight is slightly light. Paul Withers (pers. comm. 26 January 2007) suggests that the weight was made in 'the north Netherlands roughly contemporaeneously with the coin'. Half sovereigns of Henry VIII started to be minted in 1544. | 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: | 1544
1560 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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