NARC-5AE974: NARC-5AE974: English Sterling Jetton

Rights Holder: Northamptonshire County Council
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JETTON

Unique ID: NARC-5AE974

Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper alloy Sterling jetton.

Obverse: kings bust facing within a pelleted border

Reverse: Triangle within a circular border with three internal pellets and crowns in fields. Each corner terminating in a quatrefoil whivh sit outside the circular border and punctuate a pelleted border.

Notes:

This is an unusual type. The most similar parallel is found in Mitchiner Volume One, page 102, No. 132.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1280
Date to: Circa AD 1345

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.79 g
Diameter: 22 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete

Jetton / token data

Class: English
Group: Sterling/allied
Type: 1 Sterling head (M86-167) - Unknown - c. 1280 - c. 1340
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: King's bust facing within a pelleted border
Obverse inscription: None
Reverse description: Triangle within a circular border with three internal pellets and crowns in fields. Each corner terminating in a quatrefoil whivh sit outside the circular border and punctuate a pelleted border.
Reverse inscription: None
Degree of wear: Slightly worn: very fine

Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: South Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Denton (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP8357
Four figure Latitude: 52.20498645
Four figure longitude: -0.78685426
1:25K map: SP8357
1:10K map: SP85NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

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Audit data

Recording Institution: NARC
Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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