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Description: | A cast copper-alloy biface coin weight of Post-Medieval date. It is square in form and rectangular in section with punched marks on both faces. One face depicts a ship within an inner circle, the letter h above standing for 'Henry'. The opposite face depicts a hand flanked by the letters H-W, within an inner circle. It measures 15.36mm in length, 15.09mm in width, 3.98mm in thickness and 6.55g (101 grains) in weight.This is a continental coin weight for a British coin, probably of Henry VIII. The ship indicates that the weight is for a noble, whose full weight should be 108 grains, the hand indicating it was manufactured in Antwerp by an unknown maker with the initials H W (see Withers and Withers, 1995: pp 20, 60, 68). It is of 16th century AD date.
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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