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JETTON
Unique ID: SF-81EE7F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete but worn copper-alloy Rose and Orb jetton of anonymous Nuremberg maker, c.1500-1650 AD. As Mitchiner, 1988: no. 1463.
Obverse: A margin of wedges, Three crowns and three lis arranged centrifugally around a central rose, all within an inner circle.
Reverse: A margin of wedges, An Imperial Orb surmounted by a cross pattee, within a double stranded trefoil, all within an inner circle.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.69 g
Diameter: 17.27 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st December 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Class: Nuremberg
Group: Rose/orb
Type: Unknown (M1190-1286c, 1294-1298) - Anonymous stock: c. 1490 - c. 1585
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Three crowns and three lis arranged centrifugally around a central rose, all within an inner circle.
Obverse inscription: A margin of wedges
Reverse description: An Imperial Orb surmounted by a cross pattee, within a double stranded trefoil, all within an inner circle.
Reverse inscription: A margin of wedges
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Barham
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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