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JETTON
Unique ID: LEIC-3F02E7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy Medieval English Jetton. OBV: foliate design in the centre, surrounded by a border of alternating crosses and pellets. REV: cross moline with 2 pellets in each quarter surrounded by a border of pellets. The jetton is pierced in the centre. AD 1230-1340.
Diameter: 19.0mm, thickness: 0.5mm, weight: 0.75g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1280
Date to: Circa AD 1340
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Weight: 0.75 g
Diameter: 19 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Class: English
Type: Not further defined - Unknown: c. 1280 - c. 1340
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: foliate design in the centre, surrounded by a border of alternating crosses and pellets.
Reverse description: ross moline with 2 pellets in each quarter surrounded by a border of pellets
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Bishop's Itchington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP4056
Four figure Latitude: 52.20078594
Four figure longitude: -1.4161495
1:25K map: SP4056
1:10K map: SP45NW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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