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Description: | Complete hammered copper alloy jetton of late Medieval date. The jetton has a double shield design on both the obverse and the reverse with an illegible inscription around the edge on both sides. The Jetton is worn and pierced. Based on similar designs the jetton has been dated to the fifteenth century and is probably a Nuremberg issue during the reign of Frederick III.The primary use of jettons (or jetons) was as reckoning counters in accountancy or other manual arithmetic but they were also used fraudulently as coinage and also as gaming pieces. Many jettons are pierced for decorative use or to distinguish them from contemporary coinage but there is also one known historical account of a man who tried to use jettons as currency having them pierced and strung about his neck whilst held in the stocks. Ref: M. Mitchiner, 'Jetons, Medalets & Tokens - Vol I', p.21-22.
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