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Unique ID: SUSS-CC21F5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Notes:
Notes: Mernick and Algar (2001, (ed.) Saunders) illustrate a similar example, p. 256 ref. 108, with the obverse scene linked to a legendary beast from Languedoc in southern France; the jetton is dated to the third quarter of the fourteenth century.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: AD 1375
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.3 mm
Weight: 2.41 g
Diameter: 23.3 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 1975 - Thursday 1st November 2007
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Other reference: PS Box 2: 12
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Bear passant left with three flowers above and springing from beneath to the left and righ
Obverse inscription: [C]EST LA MALLE BES[T] (‘This is the evil beast’)
Reverse description: Triple-stranded cross flory in quadrilobe
Reverse inscription: None
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mernick, P. and Algar, D. | 2001 | Jettons or casting counters | Salisbury | Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum | 256 | 108 |