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COIN WEIGHT
Unique ID: WILT-DC4F64
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A Post-Medieval copper alloy coin weight, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1600. The weight is square in plan, stamped on one face with a depicting of a male and female bust, both crowned, facing each other within a beaded border. The opposite face is stamped with a hand flanked by the initials D I.
Length 14.9mm; width 14.1mm; thickness 4.3mm; weight 6.53g.
Withers & Withers (2011: 37) identify the busts as being of Ferdinand and Isabella, although noting that coins weights could continue to depict them up to a century after their reign. The initials DI are attributed to an unknown 16th century issuer.
Inscription:
D I
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.9 mm
Width: 14.1 mm
Thickness: 4.3 mm
Weight: 6.53 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5499
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: West Lavington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0153
Four figure Latitude: 51.2761454
Four figure longitude: -1.98704796
1:25K map: SU0153
1:10K map: SU05SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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