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Description: | A post-medieval, square, copper-alloy, biface coin weight for a Spanish Escudo. The obverse of the weight shows a cross potent within a quadrilobe with three pellets in each quadrant and a pellet in each outside angle, all within a pelleted circle. The reverse shows an upright hand with a star below and the letters C and I beside it. Above the letters are two numbers depicting the date. There is a 5 to the right but the number to the left is illegible. This coin weight was produced in Antwerp by Cornelius Janssen and dates to between 1564 and 1604. See Withers, Lions Ships and Angels (2011) pp. 54 and 71. It weighs 3.2g and measures 15.22mm x 15.82mm.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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