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COIN
Unique ID: KENT-09F881
Object type certainty: Possibly
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status: Awaiting validation 
A worn and bent gilt copper-alloy copy of a Venetian Ducat, probably dating to the 18th or 19th centuries and originating in the Levant.
Obverse: ωΣHCVO/NECONT.ODIS. Figures of St. Mark and the doge represented by plant- or flower-like ghosts of human figures.
Reverse: •DIOES.MIVOϽ/AИIV∃OATOV, degraded figure of Christ, surrounded by mandorla containing sixteen stars within pellet border.
Meaurements: 23mm in diameter, thick and g in weight.
Discussion: This piece is a coin or token imitating a gold Venetian ducat. These pieces were being copied in copper-alloy and gold with variously devolved designs in the Post-Medieval Levant under the Ottoman Turks and in India (Ives, 1954. 29-32). Dating for this is unclear but production certainly appears to have continued, at least in India into the 1880s (Ives, 1954. 29). It is also clear that a number of these imitation were produced as jewellery rather than currency (ibid) and it is therefore not possible to be certain this example is a coin or some element of jewellery.
Notes:
Object recorded from email with information kindly provided by the finder, Not Seen by the FLO
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 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Diameter: 18 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Ducat
Obverse description: Figures of St. Mark and the doge represented by plant- or flower-like ghosts of human figures
Obverse inscription: ωΣHCVO/NECONT.ODIS
Reverse description: egraded figure of christ, surrounded by mandorla containing sixtenn stars within pellet border.
Reverse inscription: •DIOES.MIVOϽ/AИIV∃OATOV
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Folkestone and Hythe (District)
Parish or ward: Brenzett (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR0131
Four figure Latitude: 51.04318217
Four figure longitude: 0.86594022
1:25K map: TR0131
1:10K map: TR03SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ives, H. E. | 1954 | Venetian gold ducat and its imitations | New York | American Numismatic Society |
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