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Description: | A circular cast copper alloy coin weight dating from about AD 1700 - 1770. The obverse is decorated with scrolling foliage above and below the mark of value: 13 / SHILLINGS / [D] * 6. The word shillings is in Roman lettering and the possible D is in copperplate. This would probably have been one in a set of 11 weights to weigh the Portuguese moidore series of gold coins, this one for a half moidire which had a value of 13 shillings and 6 pence. These coins were common in England as well as the West Indies and other countries during the 18th century. The weights were made by watch-makers, jewellers and the like who bought blanks from wholesalers and stamped them themselves. The reverse is decorated with two concentric circles of raised dots or pellets. The weight is 20.8mm diameter, 2.3mm thick and at 4.75g it is less than the official mass of 5.38g.See page 55 of Withers and Withers' Lions, Ships and Angels.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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