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Description: | Post Medieval cast copper alloy square coin weight for a Lion, made in Antwerp, probably by Reynier van Ettersom c.1575. The weight is flat and on one face is the raised design of a lion seated left, tail curled up over haunches, flanked by pillars with three arches above and floor below all within a beaded circular border. On the reverse is a hand between the initials R/E within a beaded circular border. It is 16.2mm by 15.1mm and 2.2mm thick; it weighs 3.82g.The Lion was issued from 1454-60 in Burgundy by Philip the Good (1419-67) and weighed 4.25g. It continued in circulation however and a century later in 1583-4, the Flanders lion (4.14g) was issued on the same design. Coin weights are often slightly lighter than the standard weight as they reflect the legal minimum weight and, as with this example, can lose more weight through wear and corrosion.
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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