Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-566A38
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete struck / hammered copper alloy jetton, of Early Post Medieval dating (AD 1500 to AD 1650). Obverse type is uncertain but depicts three crowns alternative with three lys. Reverse type is uncertain but depicts an imperial orb within an arched tressure. Probably minted in Nuremberg. Jetton has been pierced at 5 o'clock on the reverse.
Diameter: 21.66 mm
Thickness: 0.62 mm
Weight: 0.7 g
Evidence of reuse: pierced at 5 o'clock on the reverse
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Period of reuse: POST MEDIEVAL
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.62 mm
Weight: 0.7 g
Diameter: 21.66 mm
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Other reference: Finder's ID: 16
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Class: Nuremberg
Group: Rose/orb
Type: Anonymous master period: c. 1550 - c. 1700
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: three crowns alternatively with three lys
Obverse inscription: illegible
Reverse description: imperial orb within an arched tressure
Reverse inscription: illegible
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
4 Figure: SK0813
Four figure Latitude: 52.71460096
Four figure longitude: -1.88301398
1:25K map: SK0813
1:10K map: SK01SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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