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COIN WEIGHT
Unique ID: GLO-9B27D6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete die-struck copper alloy sub-square coin weight of James I's gold angel, dating to the revaluation of the Second Coinage, between AD 1612 - 1619.
Obverse: crowned XIs (10 shillings) all within a beaded circle
Reverse: is heavily worn but St. Michael slaying dragon is just visible
Ref: Paul & Bente Withers, 1993, 'British Coin-Weights: A Corpus of the Coin-Weights made for use in England, Scotland and Ireland', page 38, ref no 424.
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 1612
Date to: Circa AD 1619
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14 mm
Width: 14 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 3.75 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st June 2014 - Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Forest of Dean (District)
Parish or ward: Westbury-on-Severn (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO6913
Four figure Latitude: 51.81476354
Four figure longitude: -2.45109999
1:25K map: SO6913
1:10K map: SO61SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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