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Description: | Copper alloy jetton. Hammered jetton, probably French issue of c.1285-1315. The Arms are a recurrent combination though differing in detail from those encountered by cursory internet trawl, which include those of modern Great Grimsby (but with boars facing left).Obverse description: Heater shaped shield charged with a chevron and three boars' heads right, with an annulet to left, rigt and above the shield. Initial cross pattee.Obverse inscription: +CETES*LECOMDAE*AV*VRAI, punctuation of triple annulets.Reverse description: Short cross with central quatrefoil and with compartmented arms which each has a lis at its end within a four arched tressure with lis on its cusps; the letter A flanked by stars appears in the spaces outside the tressure.Diameter: 26.1mm, Weight: 2.60gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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