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Description: | A copper alloy jetton that has been reused as a brooch or hooked tag. The jetton is an English one of Edward I (1272 - 1307), with probably a sterling head on the obverse, and a reverse of a long cross fleurdelisee with a star or a crescent in each angle. The jetton probably dates from 1280 - 1296 (Berry, 1974, English Medieval jettons). A loop and a pin have been soldered onto the obverse, and the whole has been gilded. There are many examples of jettons and coins being treated in this way, but this example seems unusual because the loop is at right angles to the pin, and they are not made of the same strip of metal as is more usual. This reworked jetton fits with the well known tradition of converting coins into jewellery in the 13th and 14th centuries. This technique was often applied to silver pennies and groats of Edward I, gros tournois of the French kings of the period and of similar coins of neighbouring rulers in the Low Countries. Many of these silver coins were gilded. A common feature of coin-jewellery of this period is the use of the reverse element - a large cross- as the front-piece. This has been applied to this jetton, which is presumably a cheaper version of the silver coin-jewellery. Coins converted into annular brooches include one from Tenby, Wales (NMGW-45F745), one in the Pritzwalker silver hoard, made from a gros tournois of Philip VI (from 1329-50) (Krabath and Lambacher 2006, p74 no. 35), and one from the early sixteenth-century Ducker hoard, Gotland (GW/LW/JFD 1997, 370). Examples from Britain and Ireland have been found in Co Meath (Deevy 1998, 109 no. RB 80), Penllyn, Vale of Glamorgan (on a groat of Henry VI of England struck around 1427-34; National Museum Wales Treasure Case no. 07.14) and Covenham, Lincolnshire (on a 'Short Cross' penny of around 1205-9; Treasure Annual Report 2007, forthcoming). Compare YORYM-9A5E76, LIN-D7EE13, NCL-D47B92, KENT-BB0303 and NMS735.
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