Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-6F6493
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper alloy medieval English jetton dating to AD 1280-1400. The jetton is worn. On one side there appears to be three crowns surrounded by a raised line and a design of pellets and flowers around the edge. On the other side, there appears to be four lis with three pellets as the central feather surrounded by a raised line and a border of lines and mullets with flowers.
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 1400
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.66 g
Diameter: 19.58 mm
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Other reference: SSWM 4636
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Class: English
Group: Sterling/allied
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Three crowns surrounded by a line and encircled by pellets and flowers.
Obverse inscription: Illegible
Reverse description: Four lis each with three pellets as the central feathers surrounded by a line and a border of bars and mullets and flowers.
Reverse inscription: Illegible
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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