🔎 UNIDENTIFIED England find....coin weight?

[cudamark]

Initially, I thought this was going to be a button, maybe a military one, but, it's real thick (like a Necco wafer if you remember those!), and a bit bigger than a quarter in diameter. In looking at other relics found over there, I think it's actually a coin weight, where the 36 on one side means 3 pounds 6 pence?

 

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[DCMatt]

I would guess "regiment of foot" button... But, as an American, what could I possibly know about that?

Maybe one of the Brits can sort it out.

What's the letter or image above the "36"?

 

[cudamark]

I don't know, and can't look at it right now to get other photos or details. It's part of the batch of stuff that is still being evaluated.

 

[Red-Coat]

Hi cudamark

From what looks like the remnants of a shank on the back, I would think it a button and military. The 36th Regiment of Foot was raised in 1701 and existed until it amalgamated with the 29th in 1881 to become the Worcester Regiment. Early buttons through the 1700s would just have the regiment number and usually in a roped border without a crown or other emblem. There does seem to be something above the '36' but I can't make out what it is. Doesn't look like a crown though. For the 36th (without the later crown) the ‘3’ would usually be ‘curly’ rather than having a straight top but both are possibilities, although I haven't actually seen one with a straight top. Certainly other regiments used that styling and the 36th used it in later times. A couple of examples from the 1700s:



For a coin weight, it has to relate to something (either British or foreign coinage). Three pounds and sixpence doesn’t relate to anything I’m aware of, and wouldn’t be written like that in any case. There are coin weights for 36 shillings like the one below from c.1760-1773 but the unit value would usually be followed a denomination as “shillings” in full or abbreviated as “36s” or similar.

 

[CRUSADER]

Its an 18th C Coin Weight - 3/6 Moidore (British but for weighing Portuguese coins) similar to this:

MB102274 British coin weight W1683b, Portuguese Joe, S 36 - Simmons Gallery

MB102274 British coin weight W1683b, Portuguese Joe, S 36

simmonsgallery.co.uk

 

[Red-Coat]

Its an 18th C Coin Weight - 3/6 Moidore (British but for weighing Portuguese coins) similar to this:

MB102274 British coin weight W1683b, Portuguese Joe, S 36 - Simmons Gallery

MB102274 British coin weight W1683b, Portuguese Joe, S 36

simmonsgallery.co.uk

Good ID.

Never seen one of those before!

 

[CRUSADER]

Good ID.

Never seen one of those before!

I've found a few over the years.

 

[cudamark]

Thanks guys, that kind of confirms my second thoughts. We'll see if the evaluation process agrees and I'll post an update.

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks guys, that kind of confirms my second thoughts. We'll see if the evaluation process agrees and I'll post an update.

Only if they have the right people look at it.

Checking the book, 36s was for weighing a Portuguese 4 escudos or joe.

 

[cudamark]

There is another one posted on the Colchester site with the coin weight attribution, so, it's likely to get correctly identified.