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Unique ID: CORN-9DEBE8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy Nuremberg jetton, Lion of St. Mark type, anonymous issue, c.1500-1570, with fictitious legends that are worn and missing, but the obverse legend around lion might read BEONE... and the reverse legend OVENE... like an example in Mitchiner (1988) on page 361, No.1109 or ONEO...like No.1117 on page 363.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1570
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.8 mm
Weight: 1.46 g
Diameter: 23 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 5th April 2012 - Thursday 5th April 2012
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Issuer: Anonymous master period
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Lion of Saint Mark standing left, nimbate and winged, holding Book of Gospels in raised right fore-paw but only part of Book, chest and wing can be made out
Obverse inscription: BEONEO...EN
Reverse description: Imperial orb surmounted by cross within a tressure of three arches with annulet ornaments outside the tressure
Reverse inscription: OVENE
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
4 Figure: SW7832
Four figure Latitude: 50.146412
Four figure longitude: -5.108629
1:25K map: SW7832
1:10K map: SW72SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mitchiner, M. | 1988 | Jetons, Medalets and Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg | London | Hawkins Publications | 361 & 363, | Nos.1109 & 1117 |