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Description: | A Medieval-Post Medieval copper alloy half angel coin weight, dating AD 1464-1632. The weight is circular in shape and depicts on one side St Michael slaying a dragon. The design is very worn so the detail is difficult to determine. The metal has a mid-light green patina.Withers and Withers note that the Angel began production in AD 1464 and ended production in AD1632 (1993,pp. 19-20). As it is impossible to determine where within this time frame this particular weight was produced, due to the illegibility of the design, a broad date has been given.Dimensions: diameter: 18.31 mm; thickness: 3.65 mm; weight: 5.94g.Reference: Withers, P and Withers, B. 1993. British Coin Weights: A corpus of the coin-weights made for use in England, Scotland and Ireland. Powys: Galata Print Ltd.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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