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Unique ID: SF-BA22E6
Object type certainty: Certain
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A medieval copper-alloy English jetton. Lion type depicting a lion rampant within shield (Berry type 4) dating to c. 1280-c. 1340. Mint uncertain. See Mitchiner (1988, 112; refs. 201-205) for similar, though this combination seems currently unrecorded.
It measures 21mm in diameter and is 0.25mm thick. There is a partial boring in centre of the reverse.
NB: This record has been created from paper backlog records pre-1999
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1280
Date to: Circa AD 1340
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.25 mm
Diameter: 21 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st March 1998
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SMR reference number: ADT011
Other reference: Finder's Reference J1
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Class: English
Group: Sterling/allied
Type: 4 Lion rampant (inc. in shield) (M190, 201-205, 208-211, 242) - Unknown: c. 1280 - c. 1340
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Shield bearing a lion rampant within a border of alternating voided sexfoils and pellets
Obverse inscription: None
Reverse description: Cross moline with a voided sexfoil in each quarter and a pellet in the curb of cross, within a border of alternating voided sexfoils and pellets
Reverse inscription: None
Grid reference source: From finder
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 | 112 | 201-205 |