2024-03-29T06:09:57+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925571/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925571/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925571/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925571/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925571/format/pdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925571/format/rdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/925571925571HAMP-47C259PAS5BE47C2500190DJETTON10.452.428.51Hampshire Cultural Trust Object Entry Form WINCM 6971MEDIEVAL14151497A medieval thick copper-alloy Late Tournai jetton (or perhaps piedfort jetton) dating to c. 1415-1497. Shield of France Modern type inscribed AMOVR AMORV AMOI. Minted at Tournai.
Diameter: 28.5 mm; Thickness: 2.4 mm; Weight: 10.45 g
Reference: See Mitchiner (1988, 216; no. 623a) for this legend, but around a crown obverse design. PUBLIC-F179B6 on this database (found 'near Lewes', East Sussex) is near-identical but with mullets in the place of stars of the obverse. However, while this example has a similar diameter is about half its weight.The author of PUBLIC-F179B6 writes in the discussion of the object, "There are very few jettons in the sources with an inscription like this: + AMOVR AMORV AMOI; Mitchiner (1988, 216) no. 623a is closest, but both it and an example from Salisbury (Mernick and Algar 2001, 229; no. 87) have crown obverses. Mernick and Algar (ibid.) suggest the Salisbury example is an unsigned jetton of Pierar Durer, while Mitchiner (ibid.) suggests 623a is an unsigned piece by Pierer Anelier. Both are manufacturers in Tournai in the late 15th century who inscribed their name on some of the jettons they issed."
Rob Webley further comments of this jetton, '[it is] heavy enough to be a piedfort jetton, of the type that may have functioned as row markers' (pers. comm. November 2018).2018-11-08 18:10:452018-11-09 15:52:35411Certain112929PAS5BE47C2500190D74HAMPCopper alloy10627CompleteMEDIEVALMDx14221p0gjgrsxwzxMEDIEVALMDx14221p0gjgrsxwzxMetal detectorCircaCirca92409017765176821775441421Restricted AccessSU4724SU42SEWinchester6100445300A shield containing three lis (France Modern) surmounted by a star flanked by a pellet to each side.+AMOVR(star)AMORV(star)AMOIA straight sided, triple-stranded, double voided cross fleuretty, within a quadrilobe. In the centre of the cross there are four conjoined annulets in a quatrefoil formation. The cusps of the tressure have a cross. In spandrels: cross flanked by a saltire cross to each side.641291JettonTournai278534112818214700800212818214Tournaitornado.nerve.fracturex29233Tournai (late)(M624-628, 665-711) - Unknown: c. 1415 - c. 1497France Modern1033850HAMP47C259.jpg2341704Late medieval jetton : Tournai 'Shield of France Modern' issueHampshire Cultural Trust4images/khindshamp/South EastCultivated landEuropean RegionCountyHampshireDistrictWinchesterCivil Parish51.0236-1.30344Restricted AccessReturned to finder95426