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Description: | A worn and corroded copper-alloy square coin weight of post-Medieval date. As the coin weight is worn and the surface patina is missing it is difficult to determine whether it was uniface or stamped on both sides. The one side on which stamped decoration remains depicts a cross potent within a four-arched tressure with tree pellets in each angle. The weight measures 14.51 mm by 13.9 mm across and measures 1.75 mm thick. It weighs 1.4 grams (21.6 grains), though it must have lost substantial weight through corrosion. It is of a similar size to other square weights which equate to the weight of an English sixpence from the start of the 17th to the early 18th centuries (Withers and Withers 1995: 68). Withers and Withers also illustrate the reverse cross seen on this weigh, 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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