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COIN WEIGHT
Unique ID: SWYOR-0FAFE5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy, continental coin weight, dating from the sixteenth or seventeenth century. It is square and both faces carry a design. On one side is an upright hand, the usual mark for Antwerp, flanked by the letters R I and with a letter V set between them but slightly lower. This mark is listed on page 61 of Lions, Ships and Angels, but the maker is unknown. The design on the other side appears to be abstract. It consists of an upright lozenge, impressed with a trefoil and divided at the top, beneath what appears to be a crown with a double band and a lozenge shaped central fleur. At each end of the crown is a curved double line. The weight has a dark brown patina. It is 13.8 mm long, 13.4mm wide and 1.2mm thick. It weighs 1.35 gm.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 13.8 mm
Width: 13.4 mm
Thickness: 1.2 mm
Weight: 1.35 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2009 - Thursday 31st December 2009
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 2030
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Craven (District)
Parish or ward: Sutton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE0044
Four figure Latitude: 53.892179
Four figure longitude: -2.001485
1:25K map: SE0044
1:10K map: SE04SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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