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COIN WEIGHT
Unique ID: LON-09A18A
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Post Medieval copper alloy coin weight dating from AD 1753-1754. This is a weight for a quarter of a Portugese moidore made by John Kirk of St Paul's Churchyard London. The coin weight is circular in plan. A parallel can be seen in Withers (1993:125 1506)
Obverse: Voided cross, an ornament in each quarter
Obverse inscription: IN HOCK SIGNO VINCES
Reverse inscription: A QUARTER OF A MOIDORE OR SD 69 in five lines
Dimensions: diameter: 17.78mm; weight: 2.02g.
Reference: Withers, P and B. 1993. British Coin Weights. A Corpus of Coin-Weights made for use in England, Scotland and Ireland Galata; Powys.
Inscription:
IN HOCK SIGNO VINCES / A QUARTER OF A MOIDORE OR SD 69
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1753
Date to: Exactly AD 1754
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2.02 g
Diameter: 17.78 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Hart (District)
Parish or ward: Odiham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7649
Four figure Latitude: 51.23513194
Four figure longitude: -0.91279891
1:25K map: SU7649
1:10K map: SU74NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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