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Description: | Perhaps a Post Medieval silver sixpence of William III (1694-1702). The coin may have originally had a double bend in it and part of the flan may have been deliberately smoothed erasing the design. Coins treated in this way are thought to be 'love tokens. The coin is inscribed with the letters NT perhaps the initials of the owner or recipient of the coin. The diameter is 16mm, and the weight is 1.32g. The bent coin as a love-token may be derived from the well-recorded practice of bending a coin when making a vow to a saint, such as vowing to give it to the saint's shrine if the saint would intercede to cure a sick human, animal, etc. Bending a coin when one person made a vow to another was another practice which arose from this.
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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