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Description: | Late medieval copper-alloy jetton or jeton. It is a so-called 'rose/orb' jeton of Wolf Lauffer II, Nuremberg, Germany. Master 1612, died 1651. The obverse legend reads WOLF LAVFER RECHPFENGMACH which means "Wolf Lauffer, jeton maker", and the reverse reads: GLVCK VND GLAS WIE BALD BRICHT DAS - (German for "Luck and glass, how soon they break", a proverb that is still in use today!).
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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