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Description: | A copper alloy jetton, probably a 'Venus penny' stock jetton of the Low Countries, c.1490s-1550s, Mitchiner 844.The obverse appears to depict the Austro-Burgundian shield (1482-1555), consisting of arms of Austria - 3 horizontal lines, Burgundy modern - 3 lis, Burgundy ancient - 3 oblique lines, Brabant - lion rampant with two annulets in field, surmounted by Burgundian emblems in the form of steel and spark either side. The reverse is too worn for a certain identification but it probably depicts Venus holding a spray of flowers in raised right hand, and a large petalled flower in lowered left hand. The inscriptions on both faces is fictitious, as is normal for this issue of stock jetton.The 'Venus pennies' were a popular series of jettons, or reckoning counters, that were made for the merchants of Antwerp. Their circulation in London, from finds along the Thames foreshore, is restricted to the general period from the 1480s to the 1550s.
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