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Description: | An eroded cast copper alloy coin weight for verifying a silver Halfcrown of Charles I. The weight is broadly circular in plan and the obverse and reverse faces are eroded. The obverse face is stamped with a horse and rider with a sword raised over the head. In front and behind are small fleur-de-lis. Below are the initials W C. The reverse design is contained within a small circlet of pellets - but is too badly preserved to readily identifiable. It seems possible that it reads 'with out grains' over three lines. If this reverse reading is correct it is directly comparable to example 1048 in Withers 1993 British Coin Weights. The Withers note that this reverse also appears on the reverse of weights for Half Sovereigns of Charles I (example 941). The group of weights with WC on the obverse are likely to have been made in either London or York; WC could possible be William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle based in York.The weight measures 23.9mm diameter is 4.3mm thick and weighs 13.51 grams (0.477 oz or 208.4 grains)
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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