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Unique ID: WILT-0AF115
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper-alloy Medieval French 'Crown type' jetton, probably dating to the 15th century AD, c.1461-1497 AD. Mitchiner, 1988: no 663.
Obverse: (rosette) AVE * mARIA * GRACIA, A Royal crown, across the body: rosette - three pellets - rosette, all within an inner circle
Reverse: Single stranded arcuate cross fleuretty, star at centre, within a double stranded quatrefoil (as Mitchiner no. 654). In the angles of the cross O-V-C-O, in the external angles of the foil pairs of annulets.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1461
Date to: Circa AD 1497
Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.24 g
Diameter: 26.45 mm
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Other reference: SSWM 4639
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Class: Tournai (late)
Group: Crown
Type: (M629-631, 651-664) - Unknown: c. 1415 - c. 1497
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: A Royal crown, across the body: rosette - three pellets - rosette, all within an inner circle
Obverse inscription: (rosette) AVE * mARIA * GRACIA,
Reverse description: Single stranded arcuate cross fleuretty, star at centre, within a double stranded quatrefoil (as Mitchiner no. 654). In the angles of the cross O-O-C-E, in the external angles of the foil pairs of annulets.
4 Figure: ST9634
Four figure Latitude: 51.10528443
Four figure longitude: -2.05851037
1:25K map: ST9634
1:10K map: ST93SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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