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Description: | Post-medieval copper-alloy 'rose and orb' jetton of Nuremberg Master Hans Krauwinkel II, dating from c. 1586-1635. See Mitchiner 1988: no. 1540.Obverse inscription: *HANNS KRAVWINCKEL IN NVRObverse description: Three crowns and three lis arranged centrifugally around a central rose.Reverse inscription: *GOTES REICH BLIEB EWICK (God's kingdom (realm) remains eternal)Reverse description: An Imperial orb surmounted by a cross pattee within a double stranded trefoil, all within an inner circle. Fair condition. Diameter 20.98mm. Weight 0.83g.This is a specimen of the Nuremberg series of jettons, from the late 1500s or early 1600. Jettons were used as reckoning counters on counting boards which is a kind of economic abacus needed to calculate financial transactions using the bizarre and complicated medieval European monetary systems. Later they were sold and used as card counters and gaming tokens.
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