Record ID: NMS-BE5AB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
G Description: Gold touch-piece of James II Obverse: IACO II D G M B FR[..] ET HI REX, three-masted ship Reverse: SOLI DEO GLORIA, St. Michael and the dragon Pierced at 12 o'clock (reverse) Dies: Woolf O1/R2 [See Noel Woolf, The Sovereign Remedy: touch-pieces and the King's Evil (1990)] Date: 1685-8 This is a touch-piece, a gold medal purpose-made for use in the ceremony of Touching for the King's Evil, the ritual though which English monarchs exercised their thaumaturgic gift of healing the disease scrofula. In the 16th century the habit evolved of hanging a g…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-57B5E1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragmentary gold half guinea of James II, Tower, 1688
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
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