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Description: | An incomplete struck / hammered copper alloy jetton, of probable Medieval dating (c. AD 1280 to c. AD 1343). Obverse depicts a barbed rose with five petals and a fictitious repeating legend of ROS RA with saltire stops between each word. The reverse bears no inscription, but comprises a border of pellets. The reverse depicts a central rose within a lozenge tressure. Alternating annulet and pellets are present, positioned along the exterior lines of the lozenge. A smaller rectangular perforation has been cut at the centre of the jetton. It measures 2.3 mm in length and is 1.5 mm wide.The jetton has a diameter of 21.5 mm and is 1.6 mm thick. It weighs 2.0 g.The jetton is a mid green colour, with an even surface patina.The obverse is similar to Mitchiner (1988, 110) no 186 but the reverse is different. This obverse is part of the Sterling bust issue, those with pictorial obverses.Robert Webley (FLO Somerset) comments that this is a Berry obverse type 7B. The reverse is rare and not present in the main reference works, though it is known in this combination.
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