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Description: | A copper alloy Tournai jetton dating to the period 1372-1461. Very worn with a small section missing and slightly bent, obscuring some diagnostic detail.The obverse is very worn, but is likley to be the Pashal lamb, or lamb of God, with a standard.The reverse features a solid Cross pattee with a quatrefoil/flower in each angle, within an inner circle. The legend, although illegible on this example, generally reads AVE IIIARIA GRACIA, or a variation thereof.Jettons were used a reckoning, or stock, counters and although there are English types, the vast majority arrived in the Medieval and Post-Medieval periods as a result of trade with France and The Netherlands. Once no longer used as Reckioning counters, they came into use by the general public as gaming counters and later found their way into general currency as a replacement for a lack of small copper coinage in the 17th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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