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Description: | Cast copper alloy pin with a biconvex head constructed from two dished jettons. The head is heavy and probably filled with solder holding the jettons together. Both jettons are worn but have a design of three lis alternating with three crowns encircling a central rose, typical of the Nuremberg Rose/Orb type. The legends are ficticious, both appear similar to +REIV[...]0EIVOI+RE[...]VOE+ with multiple cross marks and repetitions of E,I,V and O. This form of legend combined with the use of a five petalled rose this suggests a date c.1500-1550 for the jettons.The pin is circular in section and solid, stirations suggest it is probably drawn wire. It has been pushed through the jetton from inside and is bent over at 60 degrees as it leaves the head with the pointed tip bent back to near vertical. The head is 18.4mm in diameter and 10.8mm thick, the pin is 1.9mm in diameter at the top and c.40mm long (unbent lengh). It weighs 9.75 grams.Similar pins are recorded on the PAS database as LIN-612C61, LIN-488423 and BUC-9A34C0. IOW-34BDF3 is probably a dished jetton from a similar pin. Two pins with heads formed of a pair of flattened hemispheres, similar in form but made of plain sheet are recroed in Platt and Coleman-Smith (1975, 260, 263; refs. 1788, 1790) from 16th century contexts.
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