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Description: | A smooth-faced post medieval silver coin bent into an "S" shape dating 1694-1702 AD. The coin has been bent twice into what are thought to be love tokens. 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. The bending of a coin when one person made a vow to another was another practice which arose from this. Insufficient detail remains to identify the coin but it is most likely a sixpence of William III. The length is 20mm, width 15mm, and the weight is 3g.
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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