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Description: | Square copper alloy weight for a Spanish 2 escudos. The front has a design of a cross potent in a double quadrilobe all within a pellet circle. The reverse is blank but the obverse style suggests it may be of French manufacture. Escudo were first issued in 1566 and continued in use until 1833.The weight is 14.9mm by 14.5mm by 3.9mm thick and wieghs 5.72 grams. One escudos weighed 3.38 grams, two 6.76 grams. Coin weights are typically slightly below legal weight and have lost more weight through corrosion. The 2 escudos was referred to as the 'pistol' in Britian as it was close in weight to an old French louis d'or (Withers and Withers 1995 pp.44 and 71)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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