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JETTON

Unique ID: LON-41C9BE

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

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 1607
Date to: Circa AD 1632

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 4.87 g
Diameter: 28.34 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete

Jetton / token data

Issuer: Hans Lauffer I
Class: Nuremberg
Type: Other
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: female figure front, head left, helmeted with dog left and altar right carrying lyre?
Obverse inscription: FOR-TITVDO
Reverse description: EIN GROSS GEMÜTE UND [D]I LIBESSTERCK ZU HALTE[N] IST GOTTES WERCK. FORTITUDO 1606 HK (TO HAVE A GREAT SOUL AND THE STRENGTH OF LOVE IS GOD'S WORK.) We don't have all the letters, i added the D, so that the text would be legible. Today, it would be DIE. Since then, the spelling changed a little bit. The N was removed.
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock