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JETTON
Unique ID: CORN-0BD5C5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy Nuremberg stock 'Lion of St Mark' jetton. The lion is nimbate and entirely within the inner circle, including the halo, on the obverse, and the imperial orb surmounted by a cross on the reverse has no pellets, annulets or elements outside the tressure. The initial mark is a crown and the inscriptions are mostly too worn to make out, and would have been fictitious, but the obverse looks like it starts MVNA[...]MVNAOB[...] and the reverse BEOD[...] whitch matches well with an anonymous Nuremberg stock jetton illustrated in Mitchener (1988) on page 360, No.1098, which dates from c.1500-1570.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1570
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 7.7 g
Diameter: 31 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 3rd May 2012 - Thursday 3rd May 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Issuer: Anonymous stock
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Lion of St Mark standing left, nimbate and winged with halo above head and rosette within and Book of Gospels in raised right fore-paw
Obverse inscription: MVNA[...]MVNAOB[...]
Reverse description: Imperial orb surmounted by cross within a tressure that has three main arches
Reverse inscription: BEOD[...]
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Perranzabuloe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW7853
Four figure Latitude: 50.334994
Four figure longitude: -5.120931
1:25K map: SW7853
1:10K map: SW73NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchiner, M. | 1988 | Jetons, Medalets and Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg | London | Hawkins Publications | 360, | No.1098 |
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