JETTON

Unique ID: SF4103

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Notes:

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Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1300
Date to: AD 1500

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.42 g
Diameter: 26.5 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st October 2000

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy

Jetton / token data

Class: English
Group: Late Wardrobe
Type: 1E Lion rampant (M254-255a) - Unknown: c. 1350 - c. 1400
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Simplified rampant lion in nine-arched tressure with trefoil inside eight of the angles between the arches; the ninth is taken up with the paw of the lion
Obverse inscription: Edge is fragmentary, but perhaps pseudo-lettering
Reverse description: Four lis arranged radially with stalks inmost, ring-and-dot motif in centre. Pellet between each lis. All within a quatrefoil with points in the angles.
Reverse inscription: No legend, just a ring of trefoils.