Rights Holder: Kent County Council
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Unique ID: KENT-2A05F9
Object type certainty: Certain
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A heavily worn and abraded copper-alloy Nuremburg jetton of Rose and Orb type, dating to the period c.1540 - 1620 AD.
Description: Obverse: Alternating crowns and lis with central rose. Legend: Illegible. Reverse: Imperial Orb within tressure of three arches. The inscription is illegible. The jetton is a light green obscured by heavy wear and dirt, part of the jetton is bent over it.
Dimensions: Diameter 18.53mm, thickness 0.97mm and weight 0.54g.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1543
Date to: Circa AD 1620
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.97 mm
Weight: 0.54 g
Diameter: 18.53 mm
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Class: Nuremberg
Group: Rose/orb
Type: Not further defined
Denomination: Jetton
Obverse description: Alternating crowns and lis with central rose
Obverse inscription: Illegible
Reverse description: Imperial Orb within tressure of three arches
Reverse inscription: Illegible
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
4 Figure: TR2049
Four figure Latitude: 51.19784052
Four figure longitude: 1.1475355
1:25K map: TR2049
1:10K map: TR24NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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