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Description: | An incomplete Post-Medieval jetton, modified with an attached pin and loop to the reverse. Part of the edge is missing and it is uncertain if the pin attachment is damaged and incomplete. Measures 20.40mm in diameter, 5.40mm in height (the jetton being 0.67mm thick) and weighs 1.36g.The jetton is of the Lombard bankers, Albizzi of Florence, and depicts on both faces two concentric circles surmounted by a lis all in a double pelletty circle (Mitchiner p.150 no.336).To the reverse is a pin, presumably attached by solder as a rivet is not visible on the obverse. This consists of a piece of sheet copper alloy max.3.6mm wide at the centre of the brooch where its edge is broken, extending 11mm whilst narrowing and bending back on top of itself at the edge of the jetton (2.7mm wide at bend, narrowing to point 1.2mm wide). At the opposite edge of the jetton is a piece of sheet copper alloy (3.1mm wide and 0.66mm thick) bent into a circle 5.8mm in diameter. The join is on the underside of the loop, where it is fixed to the jetton presumably with solder.Where patination of the loop and pin survive it is shiny and green in colour. Otherwise the metal beneath is a red-brown colour. The jetton retains its original green patination. A fragment of possibly an orgnaic material is apparent to one side of the folded-end of the pin fastening.It is uncertain how the pin attachment would have worked. Clearly there is a break at one end of the pin which suggests an extension, as per other 'jetton' brooches on this database (eg. ESS-245375, BERK-DC9647, NMS-3B5AF7) - these have the folded pointed end to one side and extend into a loop at the other (the loop being arranged at 90 degrees to the loop on this example) which means they could have been hung or fixed to a garment. However the loop would not work if hung. It might perhaps have worked as the 'pin catch' but there is no gap in the side for the pin to slot into.The alignment of the reverse modifications to the obverse of the jetton are 1 o'clock (for the loop) and 7 o'clock (for the top of the pin).The conversion of jettons into brooches and mounts took place in the late 13th and early 14th century, appearing to die out around the middle years of the 14th century. Thus this jetton was probably adapted fairly soon after its production. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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