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Description: | A worn copper-alloy Venus penny jetton of Post-Medieval date, probably struck in the Low Countries, c.1482-1555. Similar to Mitchiner, 1988: no. 837a.Obverse: (Crown) Fictitious legend: []MVE[R?]:NVBV[]VEM[]. ; Austro-Burgundian shield within an inner circle, surmounted by uncertain Burgundian emblems.Reverse: (Crown) Fictitious legend: EVREVMSRVEV[]ERIVERVER ; Standing woman (Venus?) facing with flowing hair, wearing drape, in left hand she holds a pot from which she waters the field, in right hand a bird(?). The ends of the drape extends from her right wrist and there are rosettes/flower in the field to the left. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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