Rights Holder: Northamptonshire County Council
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Unique ID: NARC-BB0A01
Object type certainty: Certain
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The Rose and Orb jettons were one of the most popular jettons issued during the first half of the sixteenth century. They were struck in large numbers and remained in use for a long period of time.
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1585
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.6 mm
Weight: 1.81 g
Diameter: 23.8 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 8th May 2008
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Five petalled rose surrounded by six fleur-de-lis/crowns. Each crown is topped by three annulets. A line divides the design and the inscription.
Obverse inscription: VB..OAN..VC......
Reverse description: Cross surrounded by an ornamental tressure - space between tressure and inner circle decorated with annulets.
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
4 Figure: SP6245
Four figure Latitude: 52.099872
Four figure longitude: -1.096291
1:25K map: SP6245
1:10K map: SP64NW
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mitchiner, M. | 1988 | Jetons, Medalets and Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg | London | Hawkins Publications |