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Description: | Complete but pierced Post Medieval copper alloy jetton or jeton. It is a so-called 'rose/orb' jetton of Wolf Lauffer II, Nuremberg, Germany. Master 1612, died 1651. The obverse legend reads WOLF LAVFER RECHPFENGMACH which means "Wolf Lauffer, jeton maker", and the reverse reads: GLVCK VND GLAS WIE BALD BRICHT DAS - (German for "Luck and glass, how soon they break", a proverb that is still in use today!). Sets of jettons were produced to be used as reckoning counters for use with a checkered cloth or table in accounting. Although produced for accounting Jettons seem to have been re-used for other purposes and many are found pierced. such piercings may have been to distinguish them from legal tender, so that they could be strung together for safe-keeping or may simply be connected with some other re-use such as use in jewellery or dress accessory items.
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