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JETTON
Unique ID: SF-89DB96
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy Rose and Orb jetton, anonymous issue of late-16th to 17th century AD date, c.1550-1620 AD. As Mitchiner, 1988: no. 1466.
Obverse: Legend formed of wedges, Three crowns and three lis arranged centrifugally around a central rose, all within an inner circle.
Reverse: Legend formed of wedges, an Imperial orb surmounted by a cross pattee, within a double stranded trefoil, all within an inner circle.
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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1620
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.94 g
Diameter: 20.26 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st October 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Issuer: Anonymous master period
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Legend formed of wedges, Three crowns and three lis arranged centrifugally around a central rose, all within an inner circle.
Reverse description: Legend formed of wedges, an Imperial orb surmounted by a cross pattee, within a double stranded trefoil, all within an inner circle.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
To be known as: Nr Bury St Edmunds
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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