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SF-FD4CF3: Medieval coin weight
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Suffolk County Council, Anna Booth, 2018-02-21 11:39:46
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SF-FD4CF3: Medieval coin weight
Description
English: A complete medieval lead alloy square coin weight for a noble. Its outer face is decorated with a raised ship design and its reverse is undecorated .

It weighs 113gr suggesting that it is a weight for a noble dating to between AD 1351-1412, which at its full weight was 120gr. After AD 1464 the weight of the noble shrank to 108gr.

See Withers and Withers, 1995, 18 & 68.

Length: 16.81mm x 16.35mm, thickness: 3.31mm, weight: 7.33g
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 1351 and 1412
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1351-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1412-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 852499
Old ref: SF-FD4CF3
Filename: BRH_SFFD4CF3.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/1002732
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1002732/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/852499
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