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Description: | Copper alloy brooch or mount made from an English Medieval jetton. A flattened bar of copper alloy has been rivetted centrally to the obverse of the jetton, so that the cross device on the reverse was displayed to the viewer. This tapers and is bent at each end, forming what is presumably a loop for a pin and a catchplate.The jetton is identical on the reverse to Mitchiner 171, an English type datable to c.1280-1343. The obverse is similar to that specimen except that on this example the Arms are not those of England but appear to represent pseudo-Heraldry, viz. three chevrons, a crescent in dexter chief, [sinister chief obscured]. Cinquefoils accost the shield and an indeterminate blob-like object is set above.Jetton brooches were clearly popular in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the smaller English jettons often being so adapted. The fashion seems to have been dying out by the middle part of the 14th century. That fact, and the pristine condition of the jetton itself, implies that this brooch was made very shortly after the jetton had been produced.
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