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COIN WEIGHT
Unique ID: SOM-27A166
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post-Medieval copper alloy bifacial square coin weight for a gold crown of the double rose coin, made in Antwerp and dating to AD 1583. This double sided rectangular weight depicts on the obverse a double rose surmonted by a crown, flanked by the initials E on the left and C on the right, all within a beaded circle. The reverse demonstates the symbol of an hand (the mark of Antwerp) flanked by the inizials C and I, which indicate the marker Cornelis Janssen. The numbers 8 and 3 on the left and right of the hand rapresent the year of manifacture (1583).The piece has a die-axis measurement of 5 o'clock.
Preserved in fair condition with a brown patina. Length: 14.9 mm; width: 14.9 mm; thickness: 1.98 mm. Weight: 3.08 g, 47.5 grains.
See SOM-DBDBBA, NMS-E06447 and WILT-FEA763 on this database for similar examples.
Withers and Withers (1995: 35) comment: 'the crown of the double rose was a popular coin in Europe. Curiously, many weights with this design were made in Germany and Low Countries for both the crown issued 1526-44 weighing 57.5 grains and for the later issue weighing 48 grains'.
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Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1583
Date to: Circa AD 1583
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.9 mm
Width: 14.9 mm
Thickness: 1.98 mm
Weight: 3.08 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 17559
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Sedgemoor (District)
Parish or ward: Othery (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST3832
Four figure Latitude: 51.08395178
Four figure longitude: -2.88653053
1:25K map: ST3832
1:10K map: ST33SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Withers, P. and Withers, B.R. | 1995 | Lions Ships and Angels: Identifying Coin-Weights Found in Britain | Llanfyllin | Galata Print | 35, 60 |
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