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Description: | A post-medieval cast copper-alloy square coin weight for a half noble from Germany or the Low Countries. On one side is the image of a ship with a capital H above the prow, all within a border. The reverse side may have had a maker's initial and place and date of manufacture but it is highly corroded and this has now worn off. The coin weight weighs 36.1 grains (2.33g) and is 14.0mm square and 2.0mm thick.Coin weights depicting ships without a rose are for the noble, half or quarter noble. Square weights with an H over the prow and are usually 16th or 17th century in date and were made in Germany or the Low Countries (Withers 1995, 18). The weight suggests this is for a half noble. Half nobles of 1412-1464 weighed 54 grains full weight but the legal minimum was slightly lower and the weight may also have lost some mass to corrosion (ibid:68). If the reverse was originally plain and this is not due to corrosion it suggests the weight was made in Germany rather than the Low Countries (Withers 1995, 20).
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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