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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy biface coin weight of Post-Medieval date. It is square in form, rectangular in section with slightly bevelled edges and very worn surfaces due to post-depositional corrosion. The front face depicts a laureate bust left within an beaded circular border, while the reverse has a mark of value XX/s beneath a crown and within a beaded circlar border. It measures 18.17mm in length, 17.89mm in width, 3.66mm in thickness and 7.51g (115.8 grains) in weight.This is a British coin weight that finds close parallels in a published coin weight for a Laurel of James I (Withers and Withers, 1995: pp. 12-13). However, it falls below the standard weight for the Laurel and is instead closer to a Guinea weight of Charles II onwards. This suggests it is of Post-Medieval date, probably c.1619-1685 AD in date.
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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