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Coin
& Apothecaries weights
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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
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Pre
Medieval |
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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) |
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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 |
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Medieval
1066 - 1485 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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15thC
Gold Angel coin weight |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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
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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) |
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1421 Gold Noble coin weight |
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Tudor
1485-1603 |
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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 |
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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 |
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16thC
Gold angel coin weight |
1587
Rose Ryal coin weight |
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Elizabeth
1st half crown coin weight - Crown VI 1.5g |
1589
Antwerp hand coin weight |
16thC
Antwerp hand coin weight |
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16thC
Antwerp hand coin weight |
1584
Antwerp hand coin weight |
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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 |
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1577-1603 Antwerp hand coin weight - HF - Hanns Foncq, 3.15g, 15.38mm sq |
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James
1st 1603-1625 |
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1619
-1625 Half laurel of James 1st - 3rd coinage coin weight 4.32g, value
10 shillings (120 pence) |
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Gold
Angel James 1st 2nd coinage
4.36g.15.81mm
sq coin weight
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Gold
Rose Ryal of James 1st - 3rd coinage ( 12.7gm) 12.05g, 20.09mm sq coin
weight |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1619-25
James 1st Angel, 3rd coinage coin weight 3.77g
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1619-25
Gold Laurel of James 1st, 3rd coinage coin weight XXs - 9,1g (actual
weight 8.46g)
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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) |
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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 |
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Charles
1st 1624- 49 |
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1625 Charles 1st silver half crown coin weight 14.35g, 23.76mm |
Charles
1st Unite coin weight 1625-49 |
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Charles
1st Gold Angel coin weight 3.58g - should be 4.2g LOL
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1645
Antwerp hand coin weight(b) |
Charles
1st coin weight |
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1645
coin weight
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17th
C coin weight Antwerp sq.type 46 grms Sword & Crown Jacob Jansen
De Backer 1688 |
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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 |
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Charles
II 1660-1685 |
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1660
Charles II gold half guinea coin weight |
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William
and Mary 1689-1694; William as William III to 1702 |
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Superb find 1694 William III guinea coin weight (m) |
1696 William III 1 Gold Guinea coin weight 8.07g, 20mm dia, 3.3mm T |
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1696
Willaim III gold guinea coin weight |
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Anne
1702-1714 |
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Very
rare Queen Anne 1 guinea gold coin weight |
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Georgian |
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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 |
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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 |
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1760
AD - 18 shilling coin weight |
Geo
III ' up to 1st Jan 1772' 20 shilling and 6 pence coin weight pr 5.6
grains |
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1740
Portuguese moidor coin weight(b) |
1740
1/2 Moidor Portuguese Coin Weight cleaned up by Canadian Don |
Coin
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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 |
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Weight
- 20 and crown - not researched it yet |
1720
Portuguese coin weight(b) |
17thC
bullion weight |
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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
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ca
1720-40 1/2 Moidor Portuguese gold coin weight
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18thC
5 pennyweights
and 8 grains coin weight - gold guinea |
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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
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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 |
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Apothecary
weights |
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17thC
apothecary weight - star type |
Medieval
Apothecary weight |
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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. |
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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 |
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19thC
2 scruples apothecary weight |
17th/18thC apothecary weight 1 dram |
18thC
bullion weight 2.87g |
19thC
1/2 scruples apothecary weight |
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18th/19thC
apothecary weight |
18thC
apothecary weight |
17thC
1 dram apothecary weight |
17th/18thC
1/2 dram apothecary weight |
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17thC 1/2 scruple apothecary weight |
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