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Description: | An incomplete and corroded post-Medieval copper-alloy pin (c. 1550-c. 1700).The head of the pin was constructed from two dished jettons soldered together. One jetton (the lower one) and the shaft are missing.Obverse and reverse illegible.Diameter: 25.77mm; thickness: 6.40mm. Weight: 1.93g.Other jettons have been used in the construction of pins. See Portable Antiquities Scheme finds: BUC-9A34C0; IOW-A21437; IOW-34BDF3; LIN-488423; LIN-612C61; SOM-EFB851; SUSS-EDDD63 and SUSS-513061.Two pins with heads formed of a pair of flattened hemispheres, similar in form but made of plain sheet are recorded in Platt and Coleman-Smith (1975: 260, 263; refs: 1788, 1790) from 16th century contexts.
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