JETTON
Unique ID: CORN-C0CDD2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete copper alloy Nuremberg ‘Lion of St. Mark’ jetton, too worn to make out Master, but resembles anonymous issues dating from c.1500-1570.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: AD 1570
Dimensions and weight
Thickness: 0.7 mm
Weight: 1.28 g
Diameter: 24.4 mm
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 19th September 2005
Personal details
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Recorded by: Ms Anna
Tyacke
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Identified by: Ms Anna
Tyacke - [view all attributed records]
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Jetton/ token data
Denomination: Jetton [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Mint or issue place: Nuremberg
Obverse description: Lion of St. Mark standing left, nimbate and winged, holding Book of Gospels in raised right fore-paw, with lion’s halo just touching inner circle
Obverse inscription: Illegible
Reverse description: Imperial orb surmounted by cross within a tressure of three arches with paired pellets outside the tressure on either side of the points
Reverse inscription: Illegible
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Spatial metadata
Region: South West
County: Cornwall
District: Penwith
Parish: Perranuthnoe
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW5329
Four figure Latitude: 50.109595 Four figure longitude: -5.455965
1:25K map: SW5329
1:10K map: SW59NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land[scope notes]
Adjacent Domesday Book places
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References cited
- Mitchiner, M, 1988. Jetons, Medalets and Tokens, Volume 1. The Medieval Period and Nuremberg London : Seaby, pp361,
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Created:
Sunday 23rd October 2005
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
