https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights.html https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/coin-weights/coin-weight-quarter-laurel-58755.html Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:32:59 GMT Coin-weights  

Description:		A square double-sided brass coin-weight for checking the quarter laurel, first struck in 1619. The obverse depicts the laureate bust of James I left. The reverse has a crowned V.S, indicating five shillings, the coin's value. An uncertain lozenge-shaped verification mark has been stamped on the left-hand side of the crown.
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Category:		Coin-weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/uncertain-and-other-weights/metric-weight-58646.html Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:16:11 GMT Uncertain and other weights  

Description:		A metric weight with a denomination of 50 grams. The weight is of flat, discoidal form and made of copper or copper alloy, most likely cut from a round bar but now extensively bruised and scratched overall. One of the faces is stamped with the denomination, 50g. No verification marks are discernible, and it is likely that the weight is unofficial. Although adoption of the metric weight standard had been discussed in Parliament as early as 1818, it was not until the Weights and Measures (Metric System) Act was passed in 1897 that metric weights were made legal in the United Kingdom.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Uncertain and other weights
Category:		Uncertain and other weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/coin-weights/coin-weight-35700.html Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Coin-weights  

Description:		A round uniface coin-weight depicting a rider on horseback left, with sword raised. There is no legend. The appearance of the weight is very similar to one for checking the French franc à cheval, illustrated on p.32 of the first edition of Lions, Ships and Angels, by P and B R Withers. However, at 2g, it is only about half the weight of that coin. It might, therefore, be for checking the half-rijder of the Low Countries, which is a lot closer to the recorded weight.
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Category:		Coin-weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/bullion-weights/bullion-weight-58324.html Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:15:21 GMT Bullion weights  

Description:		A square bullion weight for bulk silver coin to the value of three pence. One side is stamped with the Roman numeral III under the letter 'D' (for denarii = pence). The other side also has a stamped mark, but the detail is unclear. At a recorded value of 1.2g, the present weight is well below the official standard of 1.49g, although the minimum legal weight was slightly less. Weights of this type are usually home-made. Before the recoinage of William III, much of the silver coinage in circulation was of the earlier hammered type, very worn and often clipped. People therefore insisted on being paid by weight rather than face value. Weights of the present type were used to facilitate this arrangement. They remained in use until circa 1816, at which date a standard based on gold was introduced, and the silver coins effectively became a token currency.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Bullion weights
Category:		Bullion weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/bullion-weights/bullion-weight-58313.html Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:20:39 GMT Bullion weights  

Description:		A round bullion weight for bulk silver coin to the value of one shilling (= twelve pence). Both sides are stamped with the number 12 under the letter 'D' (for pence). Before the recoinage of William III, much of the silver coinage in circulation was of the earlier hammered type, very worn and often clipped. People therefore insisted on being paid by weight rather than face value. Weights of the present type were used to facilitate this arrangement. They remained in use until circa 1816, at which date a standard based on gold was introduced, and the silver coins effectively became a token currency.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Bullion weights
Category:		Bullion weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/coin-weights/coin-weight-ryal-series-58273.html Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:43:43 GMT Coin-weights  

Description:		A round uniface coin-weight of British manufacture for checking the gold ryal (rose-noble) or its fractions. The weight depicts the king, with sword and shield, standing in a ship with a rose on the hull. The same design is used for the obverse of the ryal and half-ryal. The coins were struck from 1465, and the weight dates to the late 15th or 16th century.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Coin-weights
Category:		Coin-weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/coin-weights/coin-weight-half-guinea-503.html Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT Coin-weights  

Description:		Small rectangular weight with D.G over 2.14 stamped incuse on both sides. There is also an indistinct verification mark on one side that may be an ewer for the London Founders’ Company. D = Pennyweight (of 24 grains) G = Grains A total therefore of 62 grains = 4g. This weight is for the half guinea and dates from the 1770s when due to the poor state of the coinage an Act of Parliament decreed that various weights of guineas should pass at different values until a recoinage had been accomplished. More information on this can be read at the following link: Coinweights for English Gold Coins.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Coin-weights
Category:		Coin-weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/coin-weights/coin-weight-half-guinea-28366.html Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Coin-weights  

Description:		A round double-sided coin-weight used for checking the half guinea. Both sides have the stamped figures 2 and 14, representing two pennyweights, fourteen grains. They also have an untraced mark (seemingly a verification mark), which appears to depict an anchor. Weights that are stamped with incuse values in this way were made by various traders who bought blanks from wholesalers and stamped them using their own punches. In an effort to regularise the gold coinage, measures were taken in the early 1770s to withdraw underweight coins. The measures were complex, and entailed older (worn) coins being accepted at slighter lower weights than newly minted ones. The present coin-weight was used to check half guineas dated between 1760 and 1772. Officially, the process ended in 1776, after which half guineas were only legal tender if they weighed 2dwt 16gr.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Coin-weights
Category:		Coin-weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/coin-weights/coin-weight-guinea-28852.html Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT Coin-weights  

Description:		A round, die-struck coin-weight used for checking the guinea. One side is inscribed GEO III UP TO THE 1ST JANY 1772. The other side shows the value, twenty shillings and sixpence (S/20 D/6), and the weight, five pennyweight and six grains (Dwt/5 Gr/6). At 6.2g it is barely 4 pennyweight, and thus considerably underweight. In an effort to regularise the gold coinage, measures were taken in the early 1770s to withdraw underweight coins. The measures were complex, and entailed older (worn) coins being accepted at slighter lower weights than newly minted ones. The present coin-weight was used to check guineas dated between 1760 and 1772. Officially, the process ended in 1776, after which guineas were only legal tender if they weighed 5dwt 8gr.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Coin-weights
Category:		Coin-weights

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/weights/coin-weights/coin-weight-half-guinea-8513.html Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT Coin-weights  

Description:		A coin-weight used for checking the half-guinea. The obverse shows the weight, PWt/2 Gr/16 (2 pennyweights, 16 grains). The reverse is plain. In an effort to regularise the gold coinage, measures were taken in the early 1770s to withdraw underweight coins. The measures were complex, and entailed older (worn) coins being accepted at slighter lower weights than newly minted ones. After 1776, half-guineas were only legal tender if they weighed 2 pennyweight 16 grains.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Weights, Coin-weights
Category:		Coin-weights

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