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JETTON
Unique ID: CORN-E24EAB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper-alloy Flemish jetton, minted in Tournai, probably copying jettons of Louis II de Male (1346-1384), Count of Flanders. This combination of obverse and reverse on a jetton seem only to be found in England which suggests that they were used by Flemish merchants while negotiating to buy English wool and they remained here because there might have been a Flemish merchant colony in England similar to the Hanseatic merchants (Peter Mernick pers comm).
Obverse: Rampant lion with incurved tail within a circle surrounded by the inscription +OMNIA.DAT.DOMINVS
Reverse: double-stranded cross fleuretty surrounded by the inscription +LE MONOIE DV ROI MOI
No exact combination of this obverse, reverse and inscriptions has been identified in publications, but Claude Roelandt hopes to publish these jettons that are found in England but copying jettons from the Low Countries with Flemish inscriptions. Philip Mernick has kindly sent the recorder an example of a similar jetton from Flanders with the same obverse and reverse and similar reverse legend of +LE MONOIE DV ROI, but the obverse legend is completely different. The closest match on the database to the obverse legend is in records HAMP-BBA428 and SUR-FA84F5 which have the same inscription of +OMNIA D[...]OMINVS but on the reverse.
See PUBLIC-0FF312 for a contemporary copy of a Low Countries jetton probably copying Louis II de Male (1346-1384) Count of Flanders. Obverse is rampant lion type inscribed AVE MARIA GRATI and reverse is double-stranded cross fleuretty with inscription +ROI+ +[M]OI+ +[D]OI+ +[M]OI:+.
See Mitchiner (1988) on page 251, no.785 for a regular issue of Louis II de Male with a rampant lion with an incurving tail but within shield on the obverse and a triple stranded cross fleuretty on the reverse.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1346
Date to: Circa AD 1384
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 2.6 g
Diameter: 23 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 3rd September 2016 - Saturday 3rd September 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Class: Low Countries
Group: Flanders county
Type: (M782-789) - Unknown: 1305-1384
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Rampant lion with incurved tail within an inner circle
Obverse inscription: +OMNIA.DAT.DOMINVS
Reverse description: double-stranded cross fleuretty within an inner circle
Reverse inscription: +LE MONOIE DV ROI MOI
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Babergh (District)
Parish or ward: Glemsford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL8249
Four figure Latitude: 52.10937467
Four figure longitude: 0.6563298
1:25K map: TL8249
1:10K map: TL84NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchiner, M. | 1988 | Jetons, Medalets and Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg | London | Hawkins Publications | 251 | no.785 |
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