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Flemish jetton of Louis de Male (obverse)
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2016-09-30 15:47:07
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Flemish jetton of Louis de Male (obverse)
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English: Copper-alloy Flemish jetton, minted in Tournai, probably copying jettons of Louis II de Male (1346-1384), Count of Flanders. This combination of obverse and reverse on a jetton seem only to be found in England which suggests that they were used by Flemish merchants while negotiating to buy English wool and they remained here because there might have been a Flemish merchant colony in England similar to the Hanseatic merchants (Peter Mernick pers comm).

Obverse: Rampant lion with incurved tail within a circle surrounded by the inscription +OMNIA.DAT.DOMINVS

Reverse: double-stranded cross fleuretty surrounded by the inscription +LE MONOIE DV ROI MOI

No exact combination of this obverse, reverse and inscriptions has been identified in publications, but Claude Roelandt hopes to publish these jettons that are found in England but copying jettons from the Low Countries with Flemish inscriptions. Philip Mernick has kindly sent the recorder an example of a similar jetton from Flanders with the same obverse and reverse and similar reverse legend of +LE MONOIE DV ROI, but the obverse legend is completely different. The closest match on the database to the obverse legend is in records <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/778227" title="View details for HAMP-BBA428">HAMP-BBA428</a> and <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/734831" title="View details for SUR-FA84F5">SUR-FA84F5</a> which have the same inscription of +OMNIA D[...]OMINVS but on the reverse.

See PUBLIC-0FF312 for a contemporary copy of a Low Countries jetton probably copying Louis II de Male (1346-1384) Count of Flanders. Obverse is rampant lion type inscribed AVE MARIA GRATI and reverse is double-stranded cross fleuretty with inscription +ROI+ +[M]OI+ +[D]OI+ +[M]OI:+.

See Mitchiner (1988) on page 251, no.785 for a regular issue of Louis II de Male with a rampant lion with an incurving tail but within shield on the obverse and a triple stranded cross fleuretty on the reverse.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 1346 and 1384
date QS:P571,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1346-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1384-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 807113
Old ref: CORN-E24EAB
Filename: sept16finds171.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/584889
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/584889/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/807113
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 25 November 2020)
Object location52° 05′ 58.56″ N, 0° 40′ 21.81″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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