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JETTON
Unique ID: NMS-ABFF2A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy jetton, Period of Louis XI and Charles VIII, 'Three Circles' type of Tournai, Mitchiner 602 (same dies), c.1461-97
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1461
Date to: Circa AD 1497
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th May 2014 - Monday 9th June 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 32735
Other reference: KLMD062014
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Class: Tournai (late)
Group: Three circles
Type: (M573-576, 601-607, 646, 747-763) - Unknown: c. 1447 - c. 1521
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse inscription: [lis] IE [trefoil] mE [trefoil] RECOVmAnDE [trefoil] A DIEV A
Reverse inscription: GETTES SEVRmEnT ALVEn (not 'AmEn' as read in Mitchiner)
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Sedgeford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF7036
Four figure Latitude: 52.89456655
Four figure longitude: 0.52569155
1:25K map: TF7036
1:10K map: TF73NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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