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Description: | Copper alloy market trader's weight used during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547), with a crowned incuse 'h' stamped into the obverse. The reverse is plain. The weight is 4.13 g which is equivalent to about 63 grains, and could have been used to check the weight of the half noble, which weighed about 60 grains at the time.Withers (1995) illustrates the stamp on page 37 and refers to these weights as traders' weights and not coin weights, but that they could also have been used to check half nobles.
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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