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Description: | Modern copper alloy trade weight from a stacking set. The weight is circular with a wide raised rim on the top. The top has two concentric incised circles within the rim and stamped initials. The sides are angled and the back flat. The weight is stamped with a crowned GR at 6 o'clock, the crown is weakly stamped or worn, and a crowned V at right angles to this at 12 o'clock. It is 20.3mm in diameter and 3.5mm thick; it weighs 5.61 grams, 0.215 oz. It was probably originally a quarter of an ounce with some weight lost to corrosion.Biggs (1992:54) suggests the crowned GR stamp was widely used on weights made or authenticated outside the major centres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The V indicates it continued in use into the reign of Victoria. The form of the crown over the V is unusual also suggesting it was locally stamped. This may also explain the lack of an 'Imperial' stamp which is common in this period.
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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