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Description: | A copper-alloy double sided coin weight of Post-Medieval date. It is Square in form, rectangular in section and with marks of value on both faces. The obverse depicts a seated or three quarter length crowned king holding orb and sceptre within a pelleted circular border. The opposite face has a wreath containing a hand with the numerals 8-0 and initials H-[]. The weight measures 15.70mm in length, 15.45mm in width, 3.12mm in thickness and 4.84g in weight. The crowned figure with orb and sceptre suggest this is a coin weight for a British coin, possibly a crown of Henry VIII. The hand on the reverse indicates its manufacture in Antwerp, the numerals 80 suggesting this was in [15?]80 by an unknown maker with the initials H[]. See Withers and Withers, 1995: pp. 24-25, 60, 68. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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