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Description: | A complete copper alloy English star and crescent/key type jetton of medieval date. The obverse depicts a crescent enclosing a six pointed star within a granulated circle surrounded by a repeated series of strokes and pellets. The reverse depicts a key accosted by 6-pellet clusters within a granulated circle surrounded by a repeated series of strokes and pellets.The star and crescent device appears on Mitchiner nos.245-7 and Barnard, pl.1, no.17/18. Barnard (1981, p.99) postulates that this badge was once apparently a devise of the House of Toulouse and descended to the Plantagenet kings through their mother, whose own mother and paternal grandmother were of the House of Toulouse.The crescent and star devise was also used as a badge of Richard I, John and Henry III and appears on seals of Richard and Henry and on the Irish pence and halfpence of John.The key appears on Mitchiner no.111 in which Mitchimer states such jettons were probably struck for use in the Royal Treasury.
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