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Description: | A corroded copper-alloy coin weight of post-Medieval date.The sub-square weight has been stamped on both sides. The obverse, which is very worn or poorly struck, displays a crown above the value mark 'VI'. On the reverse is a cross potent within a four-arched tressure. A stylised lis, consisting of three pellets, projects inwards from each angle of the tressure; within each external angle is an annulet. A circular beaded border surrounds both the obverse and reverse designs. The artefact is 14.8mm long, 14.5mm wide and 2mm thick. The weight of 3.05g is equivalent to 47.07grains, which, according to Withers and Withers (1995: 68), equates to the weight of an English sixpence from the start of the 17th to the early 18th centuries. The obverse design, with the crown above the value, is typical of British weights of this period. Withers and Withers also illustrate the reverse cross, which they identify as a Spanish type. The function of this weight is therefore uncertain, the most likely explanation being that it is a dual-purpose weight for the English sixpence and the Spanish gold escudo, the weights of which are roughly equivalent.
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