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Description: | An incomplete, Late Medieval, struck or hammered, copper alloy, French Tournai type jetton. Obverse: Four fleur-de-lys in a lozenge: within a four-arched tressure. Inscription: Illegible. Reverse: Cross pattee with fleur-de-lys in each quarter, within a circular border/legend. Mint name: Tournai - France. Very fine slightly worn condition but rather corroded and broken down flan. Dark brown patina with matt green corrosion on approximately half of the surface. This is likely to date from 1497-1521. Ref. History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing Ipswich 1995, page 55-57 No. 218 and Jetons, Medalets & Tokens, The Medieval Period and Nuremberg, Vol. 1, M. Mitchiner, Seaby 1988, page 236-248 No. 726-731 and No. 766-779. The jetton is 25.31mm long, 20.09mm wide, 1.02mm thick, diameter 25.31mm and weighs 2.1g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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