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Description: | Cast copper alloy coin weight with the letters L . S above the numbers 3 . 12 on both the obverse and reverse of the weight. These numbers equate to the value of £3 and 12 shillings and would have been the largest weight in a set of up to eleven weights used from c.1760-1773 to weigh the Portuguese moidore and 'joe' series of gold coins. This one was particularly used for the 'double johannes', named after the ruler Ioannes V of Portugal (1706-1750), which equated to 8 escudos (Withers, 1995, 52). The Portuguese 8 escudos gold coin weighed about 28g (Withers, 1995, 56) and this coin weight weighs 25g.Withers (1995) illustrates a similar coin weight on page 53, top left.
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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