Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-E2E5CE
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper-alloy English style 'show' jetton of Charles II type by Nuremberg Master Cornelius Lauffer dating to c. AD 1658-1711. Mitchiner 1779.
Obverse: +CAROLVS.II.D.G.MAG.BR.FRAN.ET HIBER.REX. , Laureate bust of Charles II right.
Reverse: COVNTERS CORNELI LAVFFERS RECH PFENING Crowned cruciform shields, conjoined letter C's in each angle.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1660
Date to: Exactly AD 1685
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.84 g
Diameter: 22.06 mm
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Other reference: SSWM 5224 Sorviodunum Survey
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Issuer: Cornelius Lauffer
Class: Nuremberg
Group: Other
Type: Cornelius Lauffer: 1658-1711
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Laureate bust facing right.
Obverse inscription: +CAROLVS.II.D.G.[...]
Reverse description: Shields of England, Scotland, France and Ireland in cruciform with conjoined letter C's in each angle.
Reverse inscription: COVNTERS CORNELI LAVFFERS RECH PFENING
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
4 Figure: SU1331
Four figure Latitude: 51.07817823
Four figure longitude: -1.81580485
1:25K map: SU1331
1:10K map: SU13SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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