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Coin & Apothecaries weights

 

Coin weights were made to correspond to the weights of particular coin denominations, and the denomination in question was usually indicated in the design. They were most commonly made of brass or other copper alloy and were generally produced for high-value pieces, gold rather than silver coins. Their purpose was to check the weight of coin in circulation and ensure that coin received was of good quality. Normally they would correspond to the lowest weight at which the coin remained legal tender. They could be used to guard against clipped, worn or counterfeit coin and to check the standards of foreign coin permitted in currency. For example, weights were provided in England for ducats and florins in the sixteenth century; for French louis d'or in the late seventeenth; and for the huge amounts of Portuguese gold in the early eighteenth

Coin weights are now on a searchable data base click here

 

Pre Medieval
Roman lead 20 Scriptula coin weight

Possibly Anglo Saxon weight with undeciphered inscription

Ref N.Biggs English Weights page 40

Roman coin weight - Eight scriptula(x)
Early medieval lead pyramid shaped coin weight 3.63g, 13.0mm dia
Early medieval lead pyramid shaped coin weight 3.83g, 11.54 mm dia
Roman lead 20 scriptula weight
Classic Saxon circle design on a coin weight - Romans used this design as well - needs more research as not in my ref books
Medieval 1066 - 1485

1412- 1464 Medieval Gold Nobel coin weight - ship type

6.05g.18.35 mm L

1351-1412 1/2 Gold Noble - King with sword and shield standing in a ship type with rose coin weight 7.42g
1351 AD Light Noble coin weight. Representation of a ship with fore and stern cables
Medieval Ryal gold coin weight
1475 AD 'Sun in shield' Bronze uniface coin weight for the 'ecu au soleil' French gold coin
15thC Square brass Henry gold uniface angle coin weight from low countries or Germany

1422-61 AD Bronze coin weight - French Ecu - Three lis in shield type

1461 Gold Ecu found by Texas Dave

Medieval lead weight or token - very unusual design- requires further investigation
Anglo- gallic coin weight for the French ecu au soleil issued in 1475 AD
14th/15thC 1/2 Gold Ryal - King with sword and shield standing in a ship type with rose coin weight
1422-61 AD Bronze coin weight - French Ecu - Three lis in shield type
15thC Gold Angel coin weight
Bronze round Fleur De Lis uniface French weight used for the Florin ( 24 pence coin ) ca 1350 - 1550. 3.07g
15thC Gold Ryal coin weight - shield in the boat type
1464-70 King with sword and shield in ship - 1/2 Gold Ryal 3.30g
1422- 61 Bronze uniface Crowned Three lis in shield French Ecu gold coin weight 2.96g. Letters by the shield indicate French not English version. The Gold Ecu was worth 4 shillings in England - Louis X1 Ecu d'or (1461-83) found by Texas Dave

15thC

Gold Angel coin weight

Medieval unpublished coin weight Quatrefoil with shields 3.18g

Weighes the same as a 1412- 1464 1/2 nobel

1351- 1412 AD King with sword and shield in ship - 1/2 Gold Ryal (60gr) 55.2 gr
1422- 61 Bronze uniface Crowned Three lis in shield French Ecu gold coin weight 2.96g. Letters by the shield indicate French not English version.

Stunning, Figure on horseback type. These are Low countries or German made coin weights for the low countries Rijder, rijdergulden

15.1 mm, 3.32g

1422- 61 Bronze uniface Crowned Three lis in shield French Ecu gold coin weight. Letters by the shield indicate French not English version. The Gold Ecu was worth 4 shillings in England 2.49g, 14.71mm sq
Superb Medieval square lead goldsmiths coin weight – Single Lis of 3 flowers in square obv shield Ref Rogers 3.21g

Tiny square Sun in shield type coin weight 1.44g, 9.73mm sq

Issued AD 1475 for the French gold ecu as soleil and 1/2 ecu

Ecu was worth 4 shillings ( 48 pence in England)

 
1421 Gold Noble coin weight
 
Tudor 1485-1603
c16thC Superb Gold Ryal brass single sided coin weight - rose on ship is for Ryal - R in the field indicates weight for a Rose Noble or Ryal- 3.22g, 14.04mm
16thC Rose Ryal type
16thC Ship with rose type - gold Ryal coin weight - German
16thC Ship uniface type- Henry VIII - gold Ryal coin weight

Stunning dated 1581 coin weight not in the reference books but of the 16thC Antwerp hand type - unknown markers mark

2.69g,15.31mm sq

16thC Gold angel coin weight
1587 Rose Ryal coin weight
Elizabeth 1st half crown coin weight - Crown VI 1.5g
1589 Antwerp hand coin weight
16thC Antwerp hand coin weight
16thC Antwerp hand coin weight
1584 Antwerp hand coin weight
1589 Antwerp hand coin weight
16th C coin weight cast c/a ship type 'Antwerp' bad condition
16/17th C sq brass coin weight Phillipsgulden rev. Antwerp hand
 
1577-1603 Antwerp hand coin weight - HF - Hanns Foncq, 3.15g, 15.38mm sq
 
James 1st 1603-1625
1619 -1625 Half laurel of James 1st - 3rd coinage coin weight 4.32g, value 10 shillings (120 pence)
Gold Angel James 1st 2nd coinage
4.36g.15.81mm sq coin weight
Gold Rose Ryal of James 1st - 3rd coinage ( 12.7gm) 12.05g, 20.09mm sq coin weight
Gold Angel James 1st 2nd coinage
4.36g.15.81mm sq coin weight
Facinating coin weight - variation of a Scottish made thistle crown of James 1st and from the same site as Texas Dave's gold find
1603 James 1st gold half Angel coin weight - obv Crown VS - Rev Angel

1613 Half gold laurel of James 1st square coin weight , 3rd coinage 4.20g

obv Crown XS, rev Roman bust

1603 James 1st, Gold Double crown, 2nd coinage, revalued coin weight - obv I.R.M BRITAN

Rev Crown with XI S

17thC Portuguese Coin weight - P Withers
Gold Rose Ryal of James 1st coinweight 1605 AD 12.19g - 21.36mm sq - Underweight by 1.6 gams LOL
1603 - James 1st gold Angel 2nd issue revalued coin weight XIs with crown - 4.58g
Facinating find - 1603 AD James 1st coin weight clearly marked crown XIs for gold Angel cpin ( 4.6g) but weight the same as as a James 1st Spur Ryal 6.85g - some one was attemping fraud
1619-25 James 1st Angel, 3rd coinage coin weight 3.77g
1619-25 Gold Laurel of James 1st, 3rd coinage coin weight XXs - 9,1g (actual weight 8.46g)

James 1st gold angel 2nd coinage revalued - XIs

1604-5 Gold Double crown , James 1st 2nd coinage revalued coin weight 4.66g (coin weights 5g)
1619-25 Gold coin weight Half laurel of James I, 3rd Coinage 5.0 gm - Crown XS
1604-5 James 1st gold Angel coin weight, 2nd coinage revalued - Crown XIs
Charles 1st 1624- 49

1625 Charles 1st silver half crown coin weight

14.35g, 23.76mm

Charles 1st Unite coin weight 1625-49
Charles 1st Gold Angel coin weight 3.58g - should be 4.2g LOL
1645 Antwerp hand coin weight(b)
Charles 1st coin weight
1645 coin weight
17th C coin weight Antwerp sq.type 46 grms Sword & Crown Jacob Jansen De Backer 1688
 
17thC Rose Ryal (Ship and Rose type) square brass gold coin weight from Antwerp the low countries, 3.3 g,16.65mm . Reverse hand with makers letters - possibly Bernaert Bommeres 1620 to 50
Charles II 1660-1685
1660 Charles II gold half guinea coin weight
William and Mary 1689-1694; William as William III to 1702
 
 

Superb find 1694 William III guinea coin weight (m)

 

1696 William III 1 Gold Guinea coin weight

8.07g, 20mm dia, 3.3mm T

 
1696 Willaim III gold guinea coin weight
 
Anne 1702-1714
Very rare Queen Anne 1 guinea gold coin weight
Georgian
1760's - 4 shillings and 6 pence coin weight 0.34g
18 shilling 'Joannes series' coin weight 1765(z)
1770's - 21 shillings (Guinea) coin weight
Birmingham Guinea series c1760 1/2 Guinea coin weight
1773 Coin weight, Pennweights and grains - 2.16 = 10 shillings and 6 pence which is a half guinea

Post 1773 pennweights and grain coin weight

Gold Guinea weight

2 Escudo Portuguse coin weight c 1765 AD
1760 AD - 18 shilling coin weight
Geo III ' up to 1st Jan 1772' 20 shilling and 6 pence coin weight pr 5.6 grains
1740 Portuguese moidor coin weight(b)
1740 1/2 Moidor Portuguese Coin Weight cleaned up by Canadian Don
Coin weight ?
1765 Portuguese coin weight
1760's 13 shillings and sixpence coin weight
1760 - 5 shilling and 3 pence coin weight (1/4 gold guinea)
1770's 4 shillings and 6 pence coin weight - written 4s6d
Weight - 20 and crown - not researched it yet
1720 Portuguese coin weight(b)
17thC bullion weight
1760's 10 shilling and 6 pence ( 1/2 guinea) coin weight 3.72g
18thC 2 Pennyweight and 14 grain coin weight - half gold guinea
ca 1720-40 1/2 Moidor Portuguese gold coin weight
18thC
5 pennyweights and 8 grains coin weight - gold guinea
Superb, French - Two castle and 2 Lions( arms of Spain) 4 reales coin weight 13.06g, 22.12mm XX VIG 4R ( 5 gr)
Mid 18thC 18 shillings coin weight
1770 George 1/4 gold guinea 5 shillings and 3 pence coin weight

1770's bullion weight with Lion mark - 2 pennyweight

'Annulet' pennyweight type

Apothecary weights
17thC apothecary weight - star type
Medieval Apothecary weight
17thC apothecary weight
18thC - 2 Dram apothocaries weight
17th C cast c/a apothecaries weight 2 dram (8 grms) Script as 1111. Ref Biggs Apothecaries Weights.

19thC 2 drachms Apothecaries Weight

Ref Biggs Apothecaries Weights.

18th/19thC 1 dram apothecary weight
17th C cast c/a apothecaries weight 2 dram (8 grms) Script as 1111. Ref Biggs Apothecaries Weights.
Roman Apothecary weight
19thC 2 scruples apothecary weight

17th/18thC apothecary weight 1 dram

18thC bullion weight 2.87g
19thC 1/2 scruples apothecary weight
18th/19thC apothecary weight
18thC apothecary weight
17thC 1 dram apothecary weight
17th/18thC 1/2 dram apothecary weight
     
17thC 1/2 scruple apothecary weight